Question

After completing her studies in product design, Sarah wishes to start her own business to design products to cater to the mobility and communication requirements of persons with special needs. She told her friend that she wanted to focus on supplying high quality and affordable products on “no profit – no loss basis”. The Unique Selling Proposition (U.S.P) of the products will be sensitivity to challenges and needs of the differently abled. She has to follow a series of steps to attain her predetermined objectives. In the above lines, Sarah has discussed about one of the functions of management. Identify the function and state its steps in chronological order other than the one discussed in the above para.

Answer 1

Planning.
Steps in the process of Planning are:
(i) Developing Premises which involves making assumptions about future, upon which plans are to be withdrawn.
(ii) Identifying alternative courses of action which may be used to achieve the set objectives.
(iii) Evaluating alternative courses of action and selecting the best alternative which involves scrutinizing the feasibility and consequences of each alternative before a choice is made.
(iv) Implementing the plan which involves seeing whether plans are put into action.
(v) Follow up which involves seeing that activities are performed according to plans.