Action tracking often provides a significant challenge that must be faced in making action accountability controls effective. Usually some actions can be tracked even where employees’ actions cannot be observed directly. But this tracking is not always effective. The criteria that should be used to judge whether the action tracking is effective are precision, objectivity, timeliness, and understandability (as we also discussed in Chapter 2 in a results control context). If any of these measurement qualities cannot be achieved, action accountability control will not be effective in evoking the desired behaviors.