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Welcome to Darren Smith's HCC homepage for MAN1021 Management. My goal is to provide you with access to critical resources to assist you in your coursework.  Use of this website is required for your course, please familiarise yourself with it and check back frequently.

3 - Foundations of Planning

Presentation Guidelines

Follow these steps for success:

  • Read the Question to be Answered to the class
  • Define words
  • Explain basic concepts
  • Give examples!
  • Allow for additional examples from instructor/other students, provide opportunity for concept synthesis and further exploration of the topic.

    • Questions to be Answered in your presentation:

    1. What is planning?
    2. Why should managers formally plan?
    3. What are some criticisms of formal planning?
    4. Does planning improve organisational performance?
    5. Difference between strategic & tactical planning?
    6. Short term vs long term plans
    7. Specific vs directional plans
    8. Single use vs standing plans
    9. What is MBO?
    10. What are the elements of MBO?
    11. How does MBO work?
    12. How do you set employee objectives?
    13. Downside to setting objectives?
    14. What is strategic management process?
    15. What is environmental scanning?
    16. How is competitive intelligence useful?
    17. What are the primary steps in the strategic management process?
    18. What is a SWOT analysis?
    19. How do you formulate strategy?
    20. Talk about types of strategy?
    21. What happens after strategy formulation?
    22. Why is quality important?
    23. How can benchmarking help promot quality?
    24. What is the ISO9000 series?
    25. What is 6 sigma?
    26. What is entrepreneurship?
    27. What are the characteristics of entrepreneurs?
    28. How do entrepreneurs compare with traditional managers?
    29. Case study presentation
    30. Summary & Conclusions
    31. Questions from participants
    Other important points:
    • You've been given a number of resources to assist you in your project... see Better Learning Page, Oral Presentations section for tips.
    • Your grade is derived from the Oral Evaluation Guide so please familiarise yourself with it.  Your grade will suffer if you don't use it and pay attention to it.
    • If you're going to read your entire presentation from the textbook, forget it.  I can read the book myself and so can the class.
    • If you're not prepared, be ready for an "F".

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