Management Planning and Ethics Paper
Planning, as mentioned in the text, is concerned with the future impact of today's decisions. Usually, the need for planning is apparent after decisions have been made in The company I work for. I always find that it's easy to postpone planning and because of it, constant short-run solutions are put into place.
In our organization, planning is usually what takes the most time, which we are not given much of when it comes to projects. Even when we get to plan, we don't get to plan as much as we'd like, usually. On the same token, I believe that there should be a cutoff point for planning as it can definitely suck up all of the time needed to execute a project.
I as a manager attempt to plan things as well as I can with my staff, but find that my requested timeline in accordance to the timeline given by my upper management, and to the timeline promised to the executives, find it very difficult at times. It is mentioned in the text that organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling functions in management stem from the planning function. This would explain another tribulation we have at work.
We find that we are sometimes disorganized and understaffed. For the most part I maintain the leading and controlling function with what resources I have. This is really never accomplished up to par because of what is lacking in the other areas. Goals and plans to reach them has been the main project on my plate, because of how difficult it is. For the most part, I've used my own management instinct to lead the group, and have been successful, to certain degree. < ...