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Foundation of planning - How do managers set goals and develop plans?

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What is the culture of an organisation?

the culture of an organisation can be described as the personality of an organisation, it is something descriptive, perceived and shared, it is not an object you can touch but it is more a feeling you have while working for that company.

How can you learn about the organisations culture as an employee?

organisational stories: hearing tales about events that happened in the company
material symbols or artefacts: special furniture, office sizes, ...
corporate rituals: repetitive activities that express important organisation goals and values.
language :having special acronyms; unique terms to describe equipment, colluegues, customers, ...

What are the 6 steps in setting goals?

1. Review the organization's mission and the employees key job tasks.

2. Evaluate available resources, goals should be challenging but also realistic.

3. Determine the goals individually or with input from others.

4. Make sure goals are well-written and communicate them to everyone who needs to know them.

5. Build feedback mechanism to see if goals are achieved.

6. Link rewards to goal attainment.

Once the goals have been established, managers are ready to develop plans for pursuing these goals.

What are the 3 contingency factors that affect the choice of plans?

1. Organizational level: Lower-level managers do more operational planning while high-level managers do more strategical planning

2. Environmental uncertainty: When there is a high uncertainty plans should be specific.

3.Length of future commitments: Planning for too long or too short is inneficient.