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Planning

Choosing a goal and developing a strategy to achieve that goal

SMART Goals

Goals that are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely

Goal Commitment

Determination to achieve a goal

Action Plan

Plan that lists the specific steps, people, resources, and time period needed to attain a goal.

Two methods to track progress

1. proximal and distal goals
2. gather and provide performance feedback

Proximal goals

Short term goals or subgoals

Distal goals

Long term or primary goals

Options based planning

maintaining planning flexibility by making small, simultaneous investments in many alternative plans

Slack resources

cushion of extra resources that can be used with options-based planning to adapt to unanticipated changes, problems, or opportunities

How to make a plan that works

1. Setting goals
2. Developing commitment to goals
3. Developing Effective action plans
4. Tracking progress
5. Maintaining flexibility

Top management planning

1. Strategic Plan
2. Purpose statement
3. Strategic Objective

Strategic Plan

Overall company plans that clarify how the company will serve customers and position itself against competitors over the next 2-5 years

Purpose Statement

Statement of a company's purpose or reason for existing

Strategic Objective

More specific goal that unifies company-wide efforts, stretches and challenges the organization, and possesses a finish line and a time frame

Middle Management Planning

1. Tactical plans
2. Management by objective

Tactical Plans

Plans created and implemented by middle managers that specify how the company will use resources, budgets, and people over the next 6 months to 2 years to accomplish specific goals within its mission

Management by objective

4 step process in which managers and employees discuss and select goals, develop tactical plans, and meet regularly to review progress toward goal accomplishment

Lower level planning

Operational Plans

3 types of operational plans

1. single use plans
2. standing plans
3. budgeting

Operational Plans

Day to day plans, developed and implemented by lower level managers, for producing or delivering the organization's products and services over a 30 day to 6 month period

Single use plans

Plans that cover unique, one time only events

Standing plans

Plans used repeatedly to handle frequently recurring events

Types of standing plans

1. Policies
2. Procedures
3. Rules and regulations

Policies

Standing plans that indicate the general course of action that should be taken in response to a particular event or situation

Procedures

Standing plans that indicate the specific steps that should be taken in response to a particular event

Rules and Regulations

Standing plans that describe how a particular action should be performed or what must happen or not happen in response to a particular event

Budgeting

Quantitative planning through which managers decide how to allocate available money to best accomplish company goals

Decision making

The process of choosing a solution from available alternatives

Rational Decision making

Systematic process of defining problems, evaluating alternatives, and choosing alternative solutions

Steps of Rational Decision Making

1. Define the problem
2. Identify Decision Criteria
3. Weigh the Criteria
4. Generate alternative courses of action
5. Evaluate each alternative
6. Compute the optimal decision

Problem

Gap between desired state and existing state

Decision Criteria

Standards used to guide judgements and decisions

Absolute comparison

Process in which each decision criterion is compared to a standard or ranked on its own merits

Relative Comparison

Process in which each decision criterion is compared directly with every other criterion

Maximize

Choosing the best alternative

Satisficing

Choosing a "good enough" alternative

Groupthink

Barrier to good decision making caused by pressure within the group for members to agree with each other

C type conflict (Cognitive conflict)

Disagreement that focuses on problem and issue related differences of opinion

A type conflict (Affective Conflict)

Disagreement that focuses on individuals or personal issues

Devils Advocacy

Decision making method in which an individual or a subgroup is assigned the role of critic

Dialectical Inquiry

Decision making method in which decision makers state the assumptions of a proposed solution (A thesis) and generate a solution that is the opposite (Antithesis) of that solution

Nominal group technique

Decision making method that begins and ends by having group members quietly write down and evaluate ideas to be shared with the group

Delphi method

Decision making method in which members of a panel of experts respond to questions and to each other until reaching agreement on an issue

Brainstorming

Decision making method in which group members build on each others ideas to generate as many alternative solutions as possible

Electronic Brainstorming

Decision making method in which group members use computers to build on each others ideas and generate as many alternative solutions as possible

Disadvantages of Brainstorming

1. Production Blocking
2. Evaluation Apprehension

Production Blocking

Disadvantage of face to face brainstorming in which a group member must wait to share an idea because another member is presenting an idea

Evaluation Apprehension

Fear of what others will think of your ideas

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What is a single

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The standard procedure to be followed by the human resources department of a company when initiating disciplinary action against an employee is an example of a standing plan.

Which of the following is a difference between proximal goals and distal goals?

Proximal goals are objectives that are attainable in a fairly short time. For example, studying a page in the textbook may be considered a proximal goal. Distal goals are objectives that take longer to attain. For example, obtaining a university degree is a distal goal.