"Planning,” means setting performance expectations and goals for groups and individuals to channel their efforts toward achieving organizational objectives. It also includes the measures that will be used to determine whether expectations and goals are being met. Involving employees in the planning process helps them understand the goals of the organization, what needs to be done, why it needs to be done, and how well it should be done.
Planning or performance management is setting up expectations, continually monitoring performance, developing the capacity to perform, and rewarding good performance. I believe that this is very important in order for us to have good outcome in business. Many businesses result to failure due to lack of management planning. It may be a very simple word but it strikes a very big role in management. Without this, I believe, a business can never reach its maximum output, otherwise close down. This doesn’t mean that in planning, simply just planning is done. All plans need to be monitored. So here goes the 3rd paragraph.
Monitoring is another aspect in planning. For an organization to be effective, a manager must continue to monitor the tasks done by his employees. He needs to leave feedback or ratings for the given performance. This motivates the workers to do more. A good manager is the one who motivates his colleagues to their extreme potentials. He leads them and organizes their progress towards reaching goal. By monitoring, a supervisor can easily determine unacceptable performances, and when and where to make changes to unrealistic problems. A supervisor can make early amendments rather than doing it in the end when ratings are ought to be done by monitoring employee performance.
From time to time, a manger needs t ...