PLANNING AS A MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IN AN ORGANIZATION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

CERTIFICATION

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

CHAPTER ONE

1. GENRAL INTRODUCTION .
   1. BACK GROUND OF THE STUDY .
   1. STATEMENT OT THE PROBLEM.
   1. SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
   1. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY.
   1. OBLIGATION OF THE STUDY .
   1. CHAPTERIZATION.

CHAPTER TWO

2.0  LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1  INTRODUCTION .

2.2  TYPES OF PLANNING .

2.3  STEPS OF PLANNING .

2.4 IMPORTANCE OF REVIEW PLAN

2.5  STEPS IN PLANNING ADOPTED FROM INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO COMPANY ( ITC) BOOKLET .

 CHAPTER THREE

 RESEACH METHODOLOGY.

3.1 INTRODUCTION.

3.2 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

3.3 DATA COLLECTION ANALYSIS

3.4 RANDOM SAMPLING .

CHAPTER FOUR

 DATA ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION

4.1 PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA.

 CHAPTER FIVE

•      SUMMARY

5.2     CONCLUSION

5.3     RECOMMENDATIONS

          REFERENCE

                    CHAPTER ONE         

1.      INTRODUCTION

 This project centers on organization with principal attention to planning for the attainment of organization goals. The management of an organization is carried out through the action of several people who designed and maintained and environment in which individual working together in groups can accomplish presented missions and objective.

    Management is a process by which organization objectives are achieved through coordinated human effort. It can be defined as the carrying out of operation designed to accomplish aims and effectiveness of polities which of course are determined by the management. Personnel management that is concerned with the maintenance of human relationship they give maximum contribution to the effective and efficient working of the organization.

1. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

 This study intends to ascertain the importance and impacts of planning as a managed function of an organization. It has been detected that most management fails. This in the long run affects the organization difficult for researchers to determine the level of managerial planning function.

     In recent years the function of planning for the organization are majorly carried out by the board of directors of the organization instead of the management of the organization. These factors are problems of research work.

1.      RESEARCH QUESTIONS
2. Does your company engaged in planning
3. When planning for future, does your company incorporate variable like uncertainly ? 
4. Does your company engaged in supervision of the planned object after implementation?
5. Does your company usually appraise it well planned object after implementation ?
6. How long does planning take in your company ?
7. What level of management is responsible for the planning \
8. When is planning carried out ?
9. What does your company do when there is an adverse variance after result ?
10. What is the composition of the special committee earlier refered to ?
11. Comment on the planning function as practiced in your company and use of theories ?
    1.        OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY .

The aimed issues in the study center on how planning grips in achieving the organizational objectives. The basic aims and objectives of the study include

1. To determine what plannings are available to the organization in order to obtain the greatest capacity of worker.
2. To identify the effect of planning as a management function organized objectives.
3. To examine the model and manners in which planning is being applied in international Tobacco company and how function they are using planning achieving and to increase their organizational goals.
4. To determine what consideration and organization bears in mind when designing tools In achieving managerial decision.
5.  To identify and discuss the effect of planning techniques on corporate objective and also expose the rationale behind planning techniques vis-à-vis corporate objective.
   1.        RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

 The hypotheses to be testesd in relation to the research topic are:

HO: there is no significance planning management function in an organization .

Hi: there is no significance planning management function in an organization.