Managers at Foster and Zapp Construction set up a stringent job interview process by which management applicants are carefully screened at different levels of the organization before they are hired, attempting to increase the chance that newly hired managers will have the knowledge and skills they need to be successful within the organization. By using this process, Foster and Zapp is using control.

Feedforward

Explanation: Feedforward control is a control mechanism embarked upon by organizations or industries with the sole aim of avoiding problems or complications. The Feedforward control is designed such that, it prevents or avoid problems or future complications by sketching and adopting a certain benchmark of performance or competence level and strictly abiding by these standard by monitoring input and performance. Generally feedforward method tries to prevent problems than having to find correctional methods to make rectification.

In the scenario above, rigorous interview process was carried out to test and ensure adequate competence level of new hires and prevent hiring incompetent mangers.