Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Goal Setting
GOAL PLAN
PLANNING
Process of planning
How managers develop effective plans
Goal setting
Types of plans
New approaches to planning
Guides to action
External Message
Legitimacy for
Mission
investors, customers,
Statement suppliers, community
Strategic Goals/Plans
Senior Management
(Organization as a whole)
Internal Message
Legitimacy,
Tactical Goals/Plans motivation,
Middle Management guides,
(Major divisions, functions) rationale,
standards
Operational Goals/Plans
Lower Management
(Departments, individuals)
• Legitimacy
• What the organization stands for - reason for being
• Symbolizes legitimacy
• Employees identify with overall purpose
• Source of Motivation and Commitment
• Employees’ identification with the organization
• Motivate by reducing uncertainty
• Guides to Action
• Provide a sense of direction; focus attention on specific
targets
• Direct efforts toward important outcomes
Strategic Goals
Where the organization wants to be in the future
Pertain to the organization as a whole
Strategic Plans
Action Steps used to attain strategic goals
Blueprint that defines the organizational
activities and resource allocations
Tends to be long term
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Tactical Goals and Plans
●Tactical Goals
- Apply to middle management
- Goals that define the outcomes that major
divisions and departments must achieve
●Tactical Plans
-Plans designed to help execute major strategic plans
-Shorter than time frame than strategic plans
• Operational Goals
- Specific, measurable results
- Expected from departments, work groups, and
individuals
• Operational Plans
- Organization’s lower levels that specify action
steps toward achieving operational goals
- Tool for daily and weekly operations
- Schedules are an important component
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Goal Attainment
Means-end Chain
Attainment of goals at lower levels permits
the attainment of high-level goals
Traditional organizational responsibility
– Strategic = top management
– Tactical – middle management
– Operational = 1st line management & workers
Top Strategic
Management Goals •Shrinking middle
management
Middle Tactical •Employee
Management Goals empowerment
1st-line
Management Operational
& Workers Goals Employees
Goals
should be
consistent
and
mutually
supportive
Review Progress
Step 3:
Review Progress
and lifestyles
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Strategy Formulation and
Implementation
Strategic Management
– Definition
– Components
– Model of Strategic Management Process
– Models of Strategy Formation
strategies
product/advertising
strategies
Export
Strategy Multi-domestic Strategy
•Domestically focused • Handles markets
independently for each
•Exports a few country
domestically produced
products to selected • Adapts product/advertising
countries to local tastes and needs
Low
Low Need for National Responsiveness High
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Global Strategy
Business-Level Strategy:
How do we compete?
Functional-Level Strategy:
How do we support the business-level
strategy?
Mix of business
units and product
lines that fit
together in a
logical way to
provide synergy
and competitive
advantage
Source: Based on Michael E. Porter, Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (New York: Free Press, 1980).
Mergers
Joint Ventures
Strategic
Alliances
Strategic Business Partnering
Low High
Degree of Collaboration
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Implementing Strategy Tools
Leadership
Structural design
Information and control systems
Human resources
Structural Design
Organization Chart Human Resources
Teams Recruitment/selection
Strategy Transfers/promotions Performance
Centralization
Decentralization, Training
Facilities, task design Layoffs/recalls