Week 3 Learning Team Reflection Summary
MGT/230 Management Theory and Practice
January 6, 2013
Linda DeYampert
Week 3 Learning Team Reflection Summary Learning Team B collaborated and discussed the previous week’s objectives, which included the planning function of management, and the various factors that influence planning. Planning can be affected by legal issues, ethics and corporate social responsibility. A companys planning is also influenced by strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency planning. As a team we determined that learning about the steps of planning from the textbook’s learning objectives increased our knowledge through the learning activities and the instructor’s teachings.
Since we are all in the process of pursuing our career, planning is an important step to ensure that we successfully accomplish our goals. The textbook defines planning as a conscious, systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities that an individual, group, work unit, or organization will pursue in the future (Bateman, 2011). Planning is an essential tool that can be used either in one’s personal life or a company. The planning function consist of identifying and diagnosing the problem, generating alternative solutions, evaluating alternatives, making a choice, implementing, and evaluation. This is a purposeful effort to accomplish ones goals. Planning provides individuals and work units with a clear map to follow in their future activities; at the same time this map may be flexible enough to allow for individual circumstances and changing conditions (Bateman, 2011). Planning is necessary step in our life whether it being about who’s going to turn in an assignment or how we are going to succeed.
As a team we considered the SWOT analysis to be beneficial in our lives as well. SWOT analysis is a comparison of strengths, weaknesses,