GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Emor, Participatory Planning, Text Retrieval Conference

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Horatio Morgan

Document Summary

Planning: the process of setting objectives and determining how to best accomplish them. Objectives: identify the specific results or desired outcomes that one intends to achieve. Plan: a statement of action steps to be taken in order to accomplish the objectives. The best planning is done with the active participation of those people whose work efforts will eventually determine whether or not the plans are well implemented. The roles of planning and controlling in the management process are shown on the right. Planning keeps the future visible as a performance target. Planning helps avoid the complacency trap: being carried along by the flow of events. Improves time management. creating a performance-oriented sense of direction. Short-range and long-range plans short-range plans = 1 year or less intermediate-range plans = 1 to 2 years long-range plans = 3 or more years. People vary in their capability to deal effectively with different time horizons (elliott jacques"s findings on planning horizons):