The study, which is believed to be the first randomized control trial into workplace flexibility, saw participants divided into two groups. The first were taught various practices that aimed to increase their control over their work. So employees were trained to focus more on outcomes than face time.
Definition of Control Theory. In sociology, control theory is the view that people refrain from deviant behavior because diverse factors control their impulses to break social norms.
I have chosen to retrace the intellectual history and usage of. social control, since I believe that the concept in its original meaning can. help to integrate bodies of empirical data with sociological theory, to codify. research findings, and to handle questions of social values in sociological. analysis.