Describe the benefits of planning
for individuals and organizations.
Answer:
The
benefits of planning for individuals and organizations include the following:
• Planning improvesfocus and flexibility.
Focus and flexibility are important to the performance of both people and
organizations in highly competitive and dynamic environments.
• Planning improves action orientation.
Planning keeps people and organizations focused on the actions that are needed
to stay competitive and to become better at what they are doing. Planning helps
make people and organizations more oriented toward results, priorities,
advantages, and change.
• Planning improves coordination. Planning
helps individuals, groups, and subsystems within organizations make meaningful
contributions to the organization as a whole, even as they pursue their
specific tasks and objectives.
• Planning improves control. Planning
facilitates control by defining objectives and desired performance results, and
identifying specific actions through which they are to be pursued.
• Planning improves time management. Each
day, managers are bombarded by a multitude of tasks and demands. They work in a
setting of frequent interruptions, crises, and unexpected events. Consequently,
it can be easy to lose track of objectives and fall prey to “time wasters.”
Source: Management, 11th Edition -
John R. Schermerhorn
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