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PLANNING.
Planning is a basic management function. Planning is an attempt to manage the future: what is
to be accomplished and how. In essence, "planning is the process of determining objectives and
assessing the way these objectives can best be achieved."

Planning is an ability to manage self and/or others, and resources including time and
surrounding circumstances to reach a specific goal.The outcome of the planning function is a
plan.

The planning function requires making decisions about four fundamental elements of plans:

Objectives. Objectives are statements of future conditions, which a manager hopes to achieve.
All sets of objectives have three characteristics: priority, timing, and measurement.

Actions. Actions are the means or specific activities, planned to achieve the objectives.

Resources. Resources are constraints on the course of action. It also involves budgeting -
identifying the sources and levels of resources that can be committed to the courses of action.

Implementation. Implementation involves the assignment and direction of personnel to carry
out the plan. The three approaches to implementation are authority, persuasion and policy.

Without goals no one knows what to do and without planning no one knows when do it. Tasks
attainment should be planned and programmed Planning is bring the future to the present in
order to act about it and … now

Planning affords:

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