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CMA Foundation · Fundamentals of Business Economics and Management · Communication, Co-ordination, Collaboration, Monitoring and Control

In the management process, monitoring is best described as:

Monitoring is the continuous observation and tracking of ongoing activities and progress to check whether they are proceeding as planned. It supplies information during execution. Setting objectives is planning, recruitment is staffing, and dividing work is organising, so those options describe other management functions.

  1. AContinuous observation and tracking of ongoing activities and progress to see whether they are going as plannedCorrect
  2. BFixing the objectives of the organisation for the coming year
  3. CRecruiting and training employees for vacant positions
  4. DDividing the work among departments and defining reporting lines

Explanation

Monitoring means regularly watching and recording how activities and results are progressing against plans. Setting objectives is planning, recruiting is staffing, and dividing work is organising, so the other options describe different functions.

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