Guidelines In Writing Plans For Your Small Businesss
In putting Management by Objectives (MBO) to work for you, the process should result in plans and objectives that contribute to the input and output aspects of productivity improvement. Be sure that plans contain an appropriate balance between efficiency and effectiveness type of objectives.
Here are some well-tested guides in writing plans that will be of great help to you:
No company, division, department, or individual management position should have more than six or seven major objectives at work, at any time. Management by objectives avoids spelling out the step by step detail how people should do their jobs. Planning by MBO affords guides that are specified as results, which may be thought of as standards of performance. Therefore, managers are free to do their jobs in ways they feel comfortable with. The ultimate criteria of performance are: Did they do a good job- that meets the specifications, on time, and within budget of money and resources allocated?
Plans should be written informally, not on standard forms developed for the purpose. Use of standard forms tends to move the system toward bureaucracy, in which filling out the forms becomes the important part of the MBO process. Means become ends, and the whole purpose of gaining enthusiastic commitment to achievement is thwarted.
Each plan should contain only one idea. The point is to keep the procedure simple. If you want to deal with two ideas, write two plans. Meaning one plan (for example) for your pocket folders designs and another plan for the strategies on how you will market your pocket folder printing business. Do not mix it all in one plan. Use a