Methods, Diagnosis, and Planning in Organizations
Methods
A method is the shape or form used to perform a task, taking into account the purposes or objectives, facilities, and resources available and used in conducting it.
Diagnosis
Diagnosis is the process by which the past and present of a situation (economic, political, or social) are analyzed and scrutinized.
Diagnostic Methods
- Research: A principle of sustainability for the process of planning or foresight. It is a norm within planning; it is not possible to perform this process without complying with this principle first.
- Plan of Action: This formality should be accomplished to ensure the effectiveness of research and facilitates control and coordination as it develops. It is recommended that plans or action plans are described to ensure accuracy and clarity and to avoid confusing dualities and other possible errors.
- Records: To meet the necessary research plan, gather all information and understand facts, figures, expressions of feelings and thoughts, and other qualitative information.
- Sources: Include organizational charts, manuals, bulletins, instructions, flowcharts, laws, regulations, statutes, procedures, and methods.
Accounting and Financial Sources:
- Projects, drafts, journals, memorandums, plans.
- Files and information, office of planning and standards, and procedures.
- Direct and indirect interviews.
- Ministries, corporations, institutions, public enterprises, and industries.
- Memory and ministerial sources, as well as other government units, particularly the central bank.
- Administration Institutes advice: Banking, Economic, Productivity.
- Federations, confederations of labor unions.
Goals
When a target is quantified to date, prices, making a goal present, that operation quantifies limits and sets objectives; this is called projects.
Goal Benefits
- Facilitates and makes operational and economic facilitation understandable.
- Facilitates monitoring and evaluation.
- It is simpler to assess, in subsequent periods, that goal that monitors and evaluates a popular target.
- Goals provide knowledge, analysis, and acceptance of objectives and generally simplify the achievement of satisfaction within the social factor (human resources) of the organization.
- Facilitates correction of corrupt and deviant practices, simplified control product in a timely and accurate manner, which logically makes it feasible to achieve the goals.
Process
Processes are a series of operations performed in accordance with rules, principles, laws, and regulations.
Procedures
Procedures involve performing serious work in an organic form, keeping a chronological sequence of how to perform these tasks.
Plans
Plans embody purpose; it is a concrete plan and prepares to address in its implementation and consequences of the goals, aims, and objectives. Plans do not merely point out these elements, unlike the elements above.
Objectives
Objectives are the decomposition of ends. One cannot speak independently of goals, objectives, and aims since they are quite different concepts, but closely related.
Directives
Directives are general guidance, which provides the framework for the formation of a policy. The policy has in common with the directive, which states some purposes, but like directives, politics, and policy, it has a peculiarity that it does not note other means to achieve these ends.
Policies
A policy is a form of action; it is a set of rules and guidance that will limit administrative action, expressed in general purposes. Policy has its origin in the directive; it provides a framework for training. Policies are renowned for their standards of character and address general, broad, and flexible adaptation to social changes.
Purpose
Purposes are a logical product of these directives and policies; they are the ones required to achieve the purposes of a general principle. The way it manifests is general in nature and focuses on a series of objectives.