Importance of planning

facilitates decision making, establishes standards for controlling

• Planning provides directions,

• promotes innovative ideas,

  .

• reduces

  overlapping and wasteful activities

• reduces risks of uncertainty, ,

If there was no planning, empl‑

oyees would be working in

different directions. It means

• Planning provides directions,

• promotes innovative ideas,

  .

• reduces

  overlapping and wasteful activities

• reduces risks of uncertainty, ,

By deciding in advance the tasks to be performed, planning shows the way to deal with changes and uncertain events. It means

• Planning provides directions.

• promotes innovative ideas.

• reduceso overlappingand wasteful activities

• reduces risks of uncertainty

Planning helps in avoiding confusion and misunderstanding. It means

• Planning provides directions.

• promotes innovative ideas.

• reduces overlapping and wasteful activities

• reduces risks of uncertainty

new ideas can take the shape of concrete plans. It means planning

• provides directions.

• promotes innovative ideas.

• reduceso overlappingand wasteful activities

• reduces risks of uncertainty

Planning provides the goals or

standards against which actual

performance is measured. It means planning

• provides directions,

• facilitates decision making,

• reduces

  overlapping and wasteful activities

• establishes standards for controlling

If there was no planning, empl‑

oyees would be working in

different directions and the

organisation would not be able

to achieve its desired goals. It means

• provides directions,

• facilitates decision making,

• reduces

  overlapping and wasteful activities

• establishes standards for controlling

Planning is an activity which enables a manager to look ahead and anticipate (a)   .

Changes or events can be eliminated and they can be anticipated, hence managerial

responses to them not required.

• True

• False

Planning serves as the basis of

coordinating the activities of different divisions, departments and individuals. It means planning

• Provides direction

• Reduces overlapping and wasteful activities

• Facilitates decision making

• None of these