Planning involves deciding in advance how to approach future events. It allows organizations to forecast potential outcomes and make choices to increase certainty. Some key characteristics of planning include: - Planning is goal-oriented and forward-looking, aimed at forecasting the future. - It is a continuous and dynamic process that occurs at all levels of management. Planning also provides alternatives and choices for how activities can be carried out. - Planning serves as the primary function that other management functions like organizing and staffing build upon. It is integral to all operations within an organization.

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2. In simple sense whatever we decide in advance for doing
any future events, is termed as planning.
For Example: if I would want to go to Delhi tomorrow then. I
will have to make plan either I will go by bus or by train.
Hence, it is clear that planning is done for doing future
events not past.
According to managerial language planning may be
defined as a forward looking process. Which is adopted by
an organization with view to bring certainty in the present
events or activities so that, organization may have more
confidence regarding the accuracy of future events. Hence,
it is clarify that planning is directly concerned with the
forecasting of future events.

3. • Goal-Oriented Approach
• Forward Looking Process
• Choice Making Activity
• Primary Function
• Planning is a Continuous Process
• Pervasive Function
• Planning is a Dynamic process

4. • The features of planning can put to be a goal oriented approach
because it is directly related with goals of organization. In the
absence of goals or targets we can not assume about planning
because within the organization all the various activities are done
with a view to attain the primary goals of organization. In fact in
the lack of goals there is no need to do plan towards any activity.
On the whole we can say; planning is a goal oriented approach.

5. • It is a salient feature of planning. Planning is forward looking
process because it is directly concerned with forecasting of future
events. The purpose of every plan is to determine the future events
with a view to bring certainty in the present activities of the
organization. Thus we can say that planning is forward looking
process.

6. • Planning can set to be a choice making activity because planning
provides a large number of alternative courses to an organization
to do a various activities in the most appropriate manner. It is
matter of fact that an action may be performed by many ways but
there is particular way to perform an action which is most
appropriate to organization. Planning provides these alternatives
to organization to perform its various actions in the most proper
way. Thus, planning is a choice making activity.

7. • The feature of planning refers to primary function because
planning is the first task of business management. All other
functions of business management such as organizing, staffing,
directing & controlling are done after completing the planning.
Infect, whenever we are going to do any event or activity at first
we make plan & accordingly we will perform to attain result
oriented work. Thus we can say to plan as primary function.

8. • Planning can put to be a continuous process because it is not an
event which is concerned with the point of time. It is needed every
walk of life of an organization. Infect, in the absence of planning
any organization cannot able to take even one step properly. Thus,
it is clear that planning is a continuous process.

9. • It is a unique feature of planning. Planning is a pervasive function
because it can universally applicable at all the levels of
management either it may be like top level of management, middle
level of management or lower level of management. In fact
planning is the function of all managers. So that, planning is a
pervasive function.

10. • Planning can be treated as a dynamic process because it is
affected if any changes are made in the internal & external
environment of organization. Such as if the goals of organization
will change then it also affects the plans of organization. Similarly
in external environment if any changes are made in the
government policy, regarding business then it also affects the
plans of organization. Therefore, it is clear that planning can put
to be as a dynamic process.

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