Saturday, 10 May 2014

Assignment : Planning (Class XII Business studies)

Q1) “Planning involves choice “Elaborate.
Q2) “No smoking in office “ is an example of which type of plan?
Q3) Name the function of management is considered a base for all other
function
Q4) Name the plan which specifies a detail step by step presentation of a job?
Q5) A company allows only eight leave for his employees during one year
.Which type of plan is it?
Q6) Without one function of management the controlling function is not
possible. Name the concerned function.
Q7) ‘No enterprises can achieve its objectives without systematic planning’.
Do you agree with this ? Give any five reasons in support of your answer.
OR
Is planning actually worth the huge costs involved ? Give 4 reasons
Q8) “Planning is not a guarantee of success of a business”. Comment
OR
“Sometimes planning fails in spite of the best efforts of management’. Do
you agree? Give any 5 reasons in support of your answers.
OR
Why is it that organizations are not always able to accomplish all their
objectives?
Q9) Name the type of plan in which expected results are expressed in
numerical term.
Q10) Name any  two external factors due to which planning may not work.
Q11) MC Donald’s Co. does not give its franchise to any other company which is
running food business. This is related to which type of plan?
Q12) In which step of planning process the planner make predictions and
assumptions regarding future?
Q13) In which type of plan the sequence of activities to complete a job is
Determined ?
Q14) Name the type of plan in which the moves of competitors is considered
Q15) A company needs a detailed plan for its new project’construction of a
shopping mall’. What type of plan is it?
.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (1 MARK)
1. What is planning?
2. Which function of management bridges the gap between where we are and
where we want to go to?
3. Name the primary function of management.
4. One of the functions of Management is considered as base' for all other
functions.Name that function.
5. What all qualities are required for doing planning?
6. Name the feature of planning which says planning is a forward looking
function?
7. How does planning create rigidity?
8. What is the basis for creating future course of action?
9. Give one limitation of planning function.
10. Which is the most crucial step in planning process?
11. Define 'Objective'?
12. Define 'Strategy'.
13. Define 'Policy'.
14. Define 'Rules'.
15. Give anyone example of 'budget'.
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (3 OR 4 MARK)
1. What do you mean by planning?
2. What do you mean by a plan?
3. Enumerate six points of importance of planning.
5. How is planning a pervasive function of management?
6. How is planning forward looking?
OR
Planning is futuristic'. Explain?
7. Planning involves decision making". Explain.
8. 'Planning reduces creativity'. How?
9. 'Planning does not guarantee success'. Comment.
10. Enumerate the steps involved in the planning process.
11. What do you mean by objectives?
12. Explain the meaning of policies.
13. What is meant by procedures?
14. What do you mean by methods?
15. What do you mean by rules?
16. What do you mean by programmes?
17. What is meant by budget?
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (5 OR 6 MARKS)
1. Defining 'organizational objectives' is the first step in the process of planning.
Explain, in brief, the other steps of this process.
Or
Explain the steps involved in the process of planning.
2. Differentiate between procedures and rules.
QUESTIONS WITH DIFFERENT DIFFICULTY LEVELS
1. How does planning reduce the risk of uncertainty? - 1 Mark
2. A company wants to increase sales; the alternatives may be reducing prices
hanging packaging, improving packaging, etc. Which step of planning process
relates with the above example? - 1 Mark
3. Write anyone difference between policies and procedures. - 1 Mark
4. A company needs a detailed plan for its new project? ‘Construction of a Shopping Mall'. What type of plan is it? - 1 Mark
5. Give anyone difference between Policy and Rule. - 1 Mark
6. "These are general statements that guide thinking and channelize, energise
towards a particular direction and help in solving routine problems”. Identify
the type of plan. - 1Mark
7. 'Planning promotes innovative ideas’. Explain? - 3 or 4 Marks
8. 'Planning focuses on achieving objectives'. Explain. - 3 or 4 Marks
9. 'Planning is the basic function on of management'. Comment. - 3or4 Marks
10. Why is planning considered as a mental exercise? - 3 or 4 Marks
11. Give an example each of any three limitations of planning which are beyond the control of an organization. - 3 or 4 Marks
12. How can (i) Political climate and (ii) Policies of competitors obstruct planning?
-3or4 Marks
13. What do you mean by planning premises? - 3 or 4 Marks
14. 'Though planning is an important tool of management, yet it is not a remedy for all types of problems", Do you agree with this statement? Give any five
reasons in support of your answer. - 5 or 6 Marks
Or
Explain the limitations of planning.
Or
Why do plans fail in spite of the best efforts of management?
15. Distinguish between Policies and Rules. - 5 or 6 Marks


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