GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Scenario Planning, Project Management, Incrementalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Shavin Malhotra

Document Summary

How and why managers plan: planning: is the process of setting objectives and determining how to accomplish them. Incremental panning is limited in scope as it generally addresses only a small range of alternatives. Short and long range plans: short range: cover one year or less. Intermediate range plans: cover one to two years: long term plans: look three or more years into the culture. Contingency planning: contingency planning: identifies alternative courses of action to take when things go wrong, never perfect, changes in environment. Scenario planning: scenario planning: identifies alternative future scenarios and makes plans to deal with each. Use of staff planning www. notesolution. com: staff planners employed to help coordinate planning for the organization as a whole or for one of its major components. Participation and involvement: participatory planning: includes the persons who will be affected by plans and/or who will implement them, participation increases creativity and information available for planning.