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Question
Distinguish Between the following:
Planning & organising.
Solution
| Basis of Difference | Planning | Organising |
| Meaning | Planning is a psychological process of thinking and deciding in advance what it is to be done and how it is to be done. |
Organising refers to the procedure of aligning activities in a certain order. |
| Objective | Its objective is to set goals and choose the means to achieve them. |
Its objective is to bring together all resources like people and materials |
| Order | It is the first function of management. | It comes after planning. |
| Targets | The targets are first analysed and then chosen. |
Resources are arranged to achieve the target. |
| Nature | It is continuous in nature. | It continues till the time all the resources are collected. |
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