Control is the management process of monitoring performance and making needed changes (Bateman & Snell, 2007). Control does not mean you have to walk around with an iron fist, cracking a whip, its means as a manager, taking the necessary actions to ensure that the company goals are reached. Let us say that you are the manager of a manufacturing plant, and an outside vendor ordered 50 units of product and they would like to have it in two weeks. Three days later you find out that the finished product is not being produced fast enough because the equipment is outdated. As a manager you have to take control of this situation and go out and either buy or rent some new equipment. You may even have to take out a contract with an outside manufacture. Either way making the decision to fix the problem to ensure that the goals are met is a form of control. Unfortunately, sometimes taking control might mean reprimanding and disciplining an employee but if no action is taken then the problem might prevent the company from reaching its goal.