Stability Indicators, a Tool for Organizational Planning and Control

Abstract

The present research introduces a methodology that helps to identify and measure Stability Indicators, as well as an interactive model used to monitor and follow them up. Stability Indicators are used as a tool for organizational planning and control. Because they offer a successful managerial system, these Indicators could guarantee an organizational behaviour oriented towards fulfilling the organization's objectives, strategies and policies. The identification and measuring of Stability Indicators allow the essential variables occurring in a given process to be observed. In order to gauge efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness, these factors have been considered to be the achievement of results, according to what was planned, thus making an appropriate use of resources. The research was centred in developing a conceptual framework that uses the systemic, cybernetic and strategic planning approaches. They permit not only diagnosis but also the design of organizations. Such approaches are a help in the identification and measurement of the best indicators employed in the analysis of the organizational stability. The activity of Carbocol, a Colombian coal enterprise, with Central Zone, a mining project, was taken as pilot sample within the study. The study of these approaches in the boundaries of Carbocol has allowed the researcher to actually identify a series of its most critical aspects which are underlined in this paper. The managerial ability has been strongly applied to the just mentioned aspects not only to learn from the company’s past and present problems but also as means to solve them. The research can be classified within the topics for Strategic Planning, Managerial Control, Cybernetics or Decision Support Systems.