DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANS
Different types of plans are
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Purposes or missions
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Objectives or goals
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Strategies
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Policies
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Procedures
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Rules
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Programmes
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Budgets
Purposes
or Missions
The
mission or purpose identifies the basic function or task of an enterprise or
agency or any part of it. Every kind of organized operation has, or at least
should have if it is to be meaningful, a purpose or a mission.
Objectives
or Goals
Objectives
or goals are the ends towards which the activity is aimed. They represent not
only the end point of planning but also the end towards which organizing,
staffing, leading and controlling are aimed.
Strategies
Strategy
is defined as the determination of the long term objectives of an enterprise
and the adoption of course of action and allocation of resources necessary to
achieve these goals.
Policies
Policies
are also plans in that they are general statements or understandings that guide
or channel thinking in decision making.
Procedures
Procedures
are plans that establish a required method of handling future activities. They
are chronological sequence of required actions. They are guides to action,
rather than to thinking, and they detail the exact manner in which certain
activities must be accomplished
Rules
Rules
are usually the simplest type of plan. The essence of a rule is that it
reflects a managerial decision that some certain action must or must not be
taken
Programmes
Programmes
are a complex of goals, policies, rules, task assignments, steps to be taken,
resources to be employed, and other elements necessary to carry out a given
course of action; they are ordinarily supported by budgets
Budgets
A
budget is a statement of expected results expressed in numerical terms
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