PLANNING

PRESENTATION BY OBIORA ANGELA

ELEMENT OF PLANNING

• Forecasting – it is the projection of trains into the future.

• Objective – it is the foundation upon which the whole
plans is built. Objective determine the goal
or end result of the projected action.
• Policies –policy is a written statement or oral
understanding which govern the action of
subordinate in similar situation.
• Procedure – it is the way through which a particular
activities are performed.
• Program – It serves as a frame work of the plan
that assist to complete a course of action.
• Budgets – It is a numerical statement prepared
in terms of money that will help to
accomplish plans.
• Strategies – It is a modified plan or policies
to meet a particular situation which is
competitive in nature.
 CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANNING

•IT IS BASED ON DEFINED OBJECTIVE

A good plan is based upon clear, well-defined and easily
understood objectives.
•IT IS SIMPLE:
A goods plan must be simple and comprehensive.
When the plan is simple, all employees of the organization
can know its significance and it can be easily put into
operation,
which leads to achieve objective.
• PROPER ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF ACTONS –
A good plan should establish standard.
Comparing actual results with standards can make a proper
analysis. It leads to effective control.
IT IS FLEXIBLE
Planning should be flexible enough to incorporate any
changes in the resources or plan.it should be responsive
to changed conditions so that if future events do not follow
the anticipation, the same plan can be modified and adopted
to the altered situation.
• IT IS BALACED,PRATICABLE AND SUITABLE
according to the size and form of the Business so that
the existing resources are properly utilized for all functions.
• IT IS TIME - BOUND
The time period allowed for achieving goals should be reasonable even
though planning is an attempt to anticipate the future.
IT USES AVAILABLE RESOUCES TO THE UTMOST
use up what is available before creating new authorities
and New Resources.
PARTICIPATION OF SURBODINATE
Also subordinate participation generally ensures the sincere and
serious effort on their part to make the plan successful.
UNITY
It is necessary that a good plan should incorporate all departments,
maintaining the consistency, and centralized objective must be the
focus.
IT IS COMPREHENSIVE
It is comprehensive and includes each and every aspect of the
objectives.
SCOPE OF PLANNING
• VISION- This is use to describe the future roles, functions and
aims of an organization.
• MISSION – It is a brief statement identifying the reason why an
organization exists.
• PHILOSOPHY – delineates the set of value and belief that guides
all actions of the organization
• GOALS – Actions for achieving the mission and philosophy.
• OBJECTIVE – Goals that motivates people to a specific end and
are measurable, observable, retrieved and obtainable.
• STANDARD - professionally desirable norms.
Others are PROCEDURES, RULES and POLICIES .
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