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Understanding Organizational Planning

Planning involves setting organizational goals, strategies to achieve those goals, and action plans. It provides direction and reduces uncertainty. Goals are targets, while plans are the actions to achieve goals. Planning steps include defining goals, analyzing future conditions, choosing alternatives, implementing plans, and evaluating results. There are different types of planning including strategic, tactical, operational, long-term, short-term, and specific plans. Strategic planning sets long-term direction, tactical plans outline how to achieve strategic goals in under a year, and operational plans translate tactical plans into specific short-term goals and actions.

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Understanding Organizational Planning

Planning involves setting organizational goals, strategies to achieve those goals, and action plans. It provides direction and reduces uncertainty. Goals are targets, while plans are the actions to achieve goals. Planning steps include defining goals, analyzing future conditions, choosing alternatives, implementing plans, and evaluating results. There are different types of planning including strategic, tactical, operational, long-term, short-term, and specific plans. Strategic planning sets long-term direction, tactical plans outline how to achieve strategic goals in under a year, and operational plans translate tactical plans into specific short-term goals and actions.

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ORGANIZATION

GROUP 5
PLANNING

Planning – is a process that involves the setting of


the organization’s goals, establishing strategies for
accomplishing those goals and developing plans of
actions that managers intend to use to achieve said
organizational goals.

Planning is important because: it provides direction


to all of the organization’s human resource
managers and employees, reduced uncertainty and
minimizes waste of time, effort and resources.
PLANNING

GOALS- are the targets that management desires to reach while.

PLANS- are the means or actions which management intends to use to


achieve the said goals.

Plans are best described in terms of their:


Comprehensiveness
Time frame
Specificity
Frequency of use
PLANNING

Planning steps include:


1. Defining of goals/objectives determining where you stand in
relation to set goals/objectives.

2. Developing premise regarding future conditions

3. Analyzing and choosing action alternatives

4. Implementing the plan

5. Evaluating results and taking corrective action


PLANNING

Planning types includes:

1.Strategic 6.Directional

2.Tactical 7.Specific

3.Operational 8.Single use

4.Long term 9.Standing plans

5.Short term
STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Strategic planning sets the long-term direction of the organization in


which it wants to proceed in future.
It focuses on the broad future of the organization Incorporating both
external information gathered by analyzing the company’s
competitive environment and the fims internal resources, managers
determine the scope of the busimess to achieve the org long-term
objectives.

• Strategic planning involves the analysis of various environmental


factors and the competition.
STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Most strategic plans focus on how to achieve goals three to five years into the
future.
It has the potential to impact dramatically, both positively and negatively, on the
survival and success of the organization.

Components of a strategic plan are:

• Vision- where does the organization want to be five years from


now?

• Mission- is more realistic overview of the country’s aim and ambitions

• Values- how do you want to inspire the world


TACTICAL PLAN

• Tactical plan- describe the tactics the organization plans to use to


achieve the ambitions outlined in the strategic plan. It is a short
range, say less then one year , a low-level document that breaks ow
broader mission statements into smaller, actionable chunks.

• The tactical plan specifically focuses on coming out with specific


deadlines, timetables, budget, the resources, the person responsible
for the project and marketing, funding, etc.
OPERATIONAL PLANNING

• Operational plans translate the tactical plans into specific goals and
actions for small units of te organization.

• They typically focus on the short term usually 12 months or less.

• These plans are atleast complex than the strategic and tactical
plans, and rarely have a direct effect on other plans outside of the
department or unit for which the plan was developed.

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