Nursing NUR402 Lecture 7: LNM7
26 Apr 2016
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Involving a greater number of managers will result in better plans and more wide spread acceptance of objectives. A successful planning process will generate several options for manages to consider. These options are alternative courses of action that can achieve the same result. The task of management is to decide among them. Managers usually consider many alternatives for a given situation, but a viable alternative suggests a proposed course of action that is: Develop alternatives: feasible realistic sufficient. Planning requires clear and effective communication at all levels before performance begins to mirror expectations. Objectives are written and plans are documented to give employees direction. Managers communicate plans into two categories: standing use plans- are those that are used on a continuous basis to achieve consistently repeated objectives. Standing plans take the form of: policies, procedures rules. Policies: a standing plan that furnishes broad guidelines for channeling management thinking toward taking action consistent with reaching organizational objectives.
