Ma CH 2
Ma CH 2
Ma CH 2
PLANNING
Practice planning every day!
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Learning Objectives
a. Objectives
b. Actions
c. Resources
d. Implementation
1. Breadth (Scope)
2. Time Frame (Duration of the Plan)
3. Frequency (Repetitiveness)
4. Specificity
5. Formulation
1. Strategic Plans
Apply to the entire organization.
Establish the organization’s overall goals.
Seek to position the organization in terms of its
environment.
It is developed by top level managers and cover
extended periods of time.
It answers three basic questions
1. Where are we now?
2. Where do we want to go?
3. How do we get there?
D) Policies:
- Is a standing plan that channels the decision making of employees.
Step 2: Forecasting
- Assumptions about what the future looks like since the future
is full of uncertainties.
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Step 3: Establishing Objectives
- Objectives are end results established for the organization and
for each work units.
- Objectives give direction to the major plans.
Step 4: Determine alternative courses of action
- Searching for and examining alternative courses of action
(strategies).
- The number of alternative should be managed.
Step 5: Evaluation alternative course of action:
- Carefully assessing the alternatives by considering them in
light of goals
- Examining the advantage and disadvantage of each alternative
courses of action.
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