Ch-4(Planning)

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Direct Questions

1. What do you mean by planning?

2. Discuss the features of planning.- 7

3. Discuss the Steps of Planning.7

4. Discuss the importance of planning.6

5. Discuss the limitations of planning.6

6. Differentiate between Single-use plans and standing plans. Click here for the answer

7. Explain various types of plans with the help of examples. Click here for the answer

8. Differentiate between various types of plans

Indirect Questions

1.“Planning is not a guarantee of the success of a business.” Comment.

2. ' Though planning is an important tool of management, yet it is not a remedy for all types of problems. ’ Do you agree with this statement? Give any five reasons to support your answer.

3.“No enterprise can achieve its objectives without systematic planning.” Do you agree with this statement? Give any six reasons in support of your answer.  

4. Why does planning sometimes fail despite the best efforts of management? Give reasons.

1Markers

1. What is meant by ‘Pervasiveness of planning’?

2. Planning requires logical and systematic thinking rather than guesswork. Which feature of planning is highlighted here?

3. How does planning reduce the risks of uncertainty?

4. Explain how controlling is not possible without planning.

5. While formulating a plan, the manager must make certain assumptions about the future. What are these assumptions called?

6. How should a manager select the best possible course of action?

7. Name the type of plan that serves as a guide for overall business planning and defines the future state of affairs that the organisation strives to realise.

8. Name the type of plan in which the minutest details are worked out, that is, procedures, rules, and budgets within the broad framework of policy.

9. Name the type of plan that is also a control device from which deviation can be taken care of.

10. ' Offering 30% of jobs to women.’ What type of plan is it?

11. Puneet Electronics decide to sell television sets through the exchange of old television sets. What type of plan is it?

12. A company needs a detailed plan for its new project-Construction of the shopping mall. What type of plan is it?

13. Which limitation of planning suggests that the employees step thinking and become blind follows of a plan?

14. In which type of plan are the sequences to perform a job determined?

15. Which plan suggests the acts and non-actions of employees?

16.‘No Smoking’-this statement is related to which type of plan?

17. McDonald's Co. does not give its franchise to any other company. Which is running a food business. This is related to which type of plan?   

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Extra Questions

Q1 A type of plan that provides the broad contours of an organisation’s business.

Ans: Strategy

Q2 Is Strategy a single-use or a Standing Plan?
Ans: Strategy is not classified single-use or Standing Plan
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