Managerial Planning

By: Sheeba Rehman

Nature of planning
Desired
Status

s
t Gap
a Planning
t Required
u
s
Current Status
T1 T2
Time
Planning at various levels of
Management
Corporate or Organisational Level Plans

Divisional Plans

Departmental Plans

Sectional Plans
Importance of Planning
What kind of
PLANS organisation
Objectives,& how structure?
Which helps
to achieve them
to know
What kind of
people are
Necessary required? Which affects
for the kind of
How direction
effectively to
lead people? In order to
assure
By furnishing success of
standards of plans
control
Planning Process

Perception of Establishing Planning

opportunities objectives premises

Establishing
Identification of
sequence
alternatives
of activities

Formulating of Choice of Evaluation of

Supporting plans Alternative plans alternatives
 Types of planning

 Dimensions  Type of planning

– Coverage of activities – Corporate and functional
planning
– Importance of contents – Strategic/functional
– Time period involved planning
– Approach adopted – Long-term/short-term
planning
– Degree of Formalisation
– Proactive and reactive
planning
– Formal and informal
planning
Planning to Effective Planning
 Difficulty of accurate premising
 Problems of rapid change
 Internal inflexibilities
– Psychological inflexibilities
– Policy and procedural inflexibilities
– Capital investment
 External inflexibilities
– Political climate
– Technological changes
– Trade unions
 Time and cost factors
Making Planning Effective
 Linked to long-term objectives
 Direction for action
 Consistent
 Feasible
 Simplicity
 Flexible