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This 27 page paper looks at the concept and practice of management controls over people and systems, using the Kuwaiti airline; Jazeera Airlines as an example. The paper discusses at the company and management control systems (MCS) that are in place, including employee appraisals, financial controls and marketing assessments. The systems are assessed in terms of congruence with the company strategies and a recommendation is made for a strategy to enhance the management control systems. The bibliography cites 21 sources.
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File: TS14_TEjazeera.rtf
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Jazeera Airways 14 3.2.1 Human Resources 14 3.3 Financial Controls 17 3.4 Marketing 19 4. Congruence with Strategies and Their Success 20 5. Conclusion and Recommendations 25 References 29 Appendix 1; Destinations 31 Appendix 2; Co-Ordination Mechanisms 32 1. Introduction In any business
there will be a wide number of influences, businesses need to be able to adapt and change in response to many of those influences. It is not only external influences
that impact on a business but also internal influences. In addition to influences that are beyond the companys control there will also be issues that the company can influence and
opportunities that a company can seize. The way a company responds to many of the influences will depend on a number of factors, not only the strategy and polices of
the company but the management control within the firm. Management control is the responsibility of all managers, with different controls being seen as differing levels. Management control systems are
the system that are out into place and may be defined as "measures, procedures, performance indicators, and other instruments used to check and regulate operations systematically......established to maintain
management control on a routine basis, and can include budgets and budgetary controls, credit control, working procedures, inventory control, production processes, and quality measures or controls"1. For companies operating
in a competitive environment management control systems can be examined in order to determine how robust they are and the effectiveness of the integration of the different elements that
are inherently involved when looking at the different types of measures that can be in place. Looking at a modern Kuwaiti organization; Jazeera Airways the importance of management control systems
can be appreciated. By looking at this company some of the elements of the management control systems that are present can be assessed and the potential methods for improvement may
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