Ma`rifat Modiriyati

Interactive control manifests itself as a control system in the context of mutual interactions and communications. Managers use interactive control to obtain proper information and exert control. Using a descriptive-analytical method, the present paper which investigates the management methods used by Imam Ali to identify the mechanisms of interactive control in his lifestyle. On investigation, two kinds of mechanisms which characterize Imam Ali's interactive control system are recognized: formal and informal. Formal mechanisms include disseminating information, transparency, gaining information from formal channels and providing feedback. Informal mechanisms of interactive control include enjoining good and forbidding evil, gaining information from informal channels, and training man power outside organizational interactions. The research findings show that Imam Ali recommends the use of some of the informal mechanisms of interactive control to compensate for the lack of formal control in organizations.