To design environment for individuals to work in groups manager must ensure that everyone understands group mission and objectives &methods to achieve them. For effective group efforts people must know what is expected of them.

Planning

Selecting missions and objectives as well as actions to achieve them

which requires decision making that is choosing a course of action from among alternatives

To design environment for individuals to work in groups manager must ensure that everyone understands group mission and objectives & methods to achieve them . For effective group efforts people must know what is expected of them

planning is most basic of all managerial functions. It provides rational approach to achieve objectives and implies managerial innovation.

Bridges gap from where we are to where we want to go.

Planning & Controlling

Planning is looking ahead & controlling is looking back. Planning deals with future events and controlling takes care of past events / activities.

Plans guide managers to use resources to accomplish goals. Controlling determines whether use of resources was in conformity with plans

Types of plans

1. Mission & Purpose : Basic purpose or function or tasks of an enterprise or agency or any part of it. Plan identifies basic function / task of an enterprise.

2. Objectives or goals: These are the ends towards which the activity is aimed . They represent end point of planning, end towa