Planning is important at all levels of management. Planning is a fundamental of one of the four functions of management. Planning is specifying the goals to be achieved and deciding in advance for the appropriate actions needed to achieve any goal. The planning function provides the goals and standards that drive the controlling function. If one does not make plans everything will seem to go wrong and that person will wander around and will be …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

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