Assignment:
1. Do you think it is possible for an international firm to have a common control system even for a single activity, such as manufacturing, when it has plants in countries such as India, Australia, Japan, the United States, and Germany? Explain you answer.
2. If you were the manager of your university's control system for exams, would you tighten or loosen the amount of control? For what signals would you look to determine whether your adjustments were appropriate?
3. In general, do you think that people respond to control systems or that control systems respond to people? In other words, will people generally conform to the tightness or looseness of a control system, or should the tightness or looseness of the control system depend on the nature of the people involved?
4. If you were a worker and management wanted to tighten controls over your job, what would they need to do to get you to go along with the tighter controls?