Week 8_Strategic Planning

In SWOT Analysis, this specifies the internal factors that may be used for planning.

• Strengths and Opportunities

• Opportunities and Threats                    

• Strengths and Weaknesses       

• Weakness and Threats

In SWOT Analysis, this specifies the external factors that may be used for planning.

• Strengths and Opportunities

• Opportunities and Threats                    

• Strengths and Weaknesses       

• Weakness and Threats

The process that involves selecting missions and objectives as well as the actions to achieve them which requires decision-making, that is, choosing a course of action from among alternatives 

• Decision Making

• Policy Making

• Planning

• Directing

In planning process, this is an important action to be taken in by planners during environmental scanning and after establishing control systems.

• Assessment

• Implementation

• Evaluation

• Feedback

“No Eating Inside the Library” is an example of a plan which is considered as the simpliest plan.

• Policies

• Goals

• Rules and Regulations

• Objectives

Emphasize rules and are stated as instructions intended to facilitate decision making.

• Policies

• Goals

• Rules and Regulations

• Objectives

If a librarian allows a user to borrow books even without an ID card which is a requirement for borrowing, what kind of policy is being applied?

• Originated policy         

• Implied Policy

• Appealed Policy

• Externally imposed

This type of policy flow mainly from objectives and are the main source of policy making within the organization.

• Originated policy         

• Implied Policy

• Appealed Policy

• Externally imposed

These policies, which come through several channels, dictate the working of an institution even though they may be beyond its control.       

• Originated policy         

• Implied Policy

• Appealed Policy

• Externally imposed

This is a characteristics of a good policy where efficiency and existence of contradicting policies dissipates the desired effects.

• Consistent       

• Flexible

• Written

• Distinguished from Rules and procedures