Nursing NUR402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Time Horizon, Strategic Planning, Middle Management
26 Apr 2016
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Planning is a technical managerial function that enables organizations to deal with the present and anticipate the future. It is the first and fundamental function of management because all other management functions are dependent on it. Planning is deciding what is to be done, when it is to be done, how it is to be done and who is to do it. It is an orderly process that gives organizational direction. Planning is the process of determining how the organization can get where it wants to go. Planning is the process of determining exactly what the organization will do to accomplish its objectives. In more formal terms, planning has been defined as the systematic development of action programmes aimed at reaching agreed objectives by the process of analyzing, evaluating and selecting among the opportunities which are foreseen. Planning responsibilities are different for managers at each organizational level.
