Planning (OAM)

Involves selecting MISSION and OBJECTIVES as well as the ACTIONS to achieve them.

• Planning

• Organizing

• Leading

• Controlling

Requires DECISION MAKING that is, choosing a course of action from among alternatives.

• Planning

• Organizing

• Leading

• Controlling

By planning a clear path comes in order to reach and achieve the goal.

• Planning Provides Direction

• Planning Reduce Uncertainty

• Planning Minimize Redundancy

• Planning Provides Ability in Controlling

Planning helps in monitoring the work that either this works is on the right path or not.

• Planning Provides Direction

• Planning Reduce Uncertainty

• Planning Provides Ability in Controlling

• Planning Minimize Redundancy

When work activities are coordinated around established plans repeating work can be minimized.

• Planning Minimize Redundancy

• Planning Provides Ability in Controlling

• Planning Provides Direction

• Planning Reduce Uncertainty

Manager can estimate their consider impact of changes and then they can develop a response to these changes.

• Planning Reduce Uncertainty

• Planning Provides Direction

• Planning Minimize Redundancy

• Planning Provides Ability in Controlling

This activity involves collecting and analyzing relevant external information which defines opportunities or threat to the firm’s business.

The second step in planning is to establish objectives for the entire enterprise and then for each subordinate work unit.

By considering planning premises: in what environment (internal or external) will our plan operate? An assumption about the environment in which the plan is to be carried out.

Examine alternative courses of action, especially those not immediately apparent. There is seldom a plan for which reasonable alternatives do not exist.