Chapter 6: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating

Question 1

Define a plan

Answer 1

A detailed schema, program, strategy or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of a desired end results

Question 2

What are 5 types of plans?

Answer 2

a) Directional
b) Contingency
c) Strategic
d) Proactive
e) Reactive

Question 3

What are three factors influencing planning and implementation?

Answer 3

1) Situation factors
2) Personality characteristics and traits
3) Knowledge and expertise

Question 4

Define situational factors

Answer 4

How our environment, social supports, and other opinions may influence how and when we plan

Question 5

What are two key timing considerations while create a plan?

Answer 5

a) Scheduling

b) Sequencing

Question 6

Define sequencing

Answer 6

The ordering of activities and resources necessary to achieve a goal

Question 7

What does implementing a plan mean?

Answer 7

Both putting the plan into motion as well as monitoring how the plan is unfolding and make adjustments were necessary

Question 8

What are two important things a planner must do after the plan is implemented?

Answer 8

a) Observe the process

b) Scanning

Question 9

Define Scanning

Answer 9

Looking for signals and clues that could have strategic implications

Question 10

Define observing the process

Answer 10

Mentally involved and ready to respond when things are going off course

Question 11

What are the 3 types of scanning?

Answer 11

a) Actuating
b) Adjusting
c) Checking

Question 12

True or false; Strong plans are rigid and have no need to be tweaked midstream

Answer 12

False; flexible

Question 13

What is Gresham’s law of planning?

Answer 13

Short term concerns that create priorities and deadlines that take managerial attention away from long term concerns

Question 14

Define task saturation

Answer 14

occurs when people are so busy doing things that they cannot plan or lead effectively

Question 15

_____ tend to think about themselves first where as ____ are less interested in self and more interested in others

Answer 15

introverts and then extroverts

Question 16

The ability to perform tasks successfully and dependably is called?

Answer 16

Expertise

Question 17

Define persistence

Answer 17

A personality trait of not giving up when faced with adversity

Question 18

Activities are _________ when one activity must be completed before another can take place

Answer 18

interdependent

Question 19

Overlapping activities involve what

Answer 19

a combination of activities that require intermittent and or concurrent attention

Question 20

Workable plans are;

Answer 20

a) Clear
b) Adaptive
c) Flexible
d) Goal directed

Question 21

What are 3 types of plans that are commonly associated with individual and family resource management and describe each

Answer 21

1) Directional plans: Progress along a linear path to long term goal fulfillment
2) Contingency plans: back up or secondary plans to be used in case a plan doesn’t work
3) Strategic plans: use a directional approach and include both a proactive search for new opportunities and reactive solution to existing problems

Question 22

To synergize means what

Answer 22

to produce a third alternative, which is not my way or your way, but a third way that is best, a product of group thinking

Question 23

What does being proactive mean?

Answer 23

Taking responsibility for one’s own life

Question 24

Define reactive people

Answer 24

often overly affected by outside forces

Question 25

Scanning is an activity in which ?

Answer 25

individuals read the world, looking for signals and clues that could have strategic implications

Question 26

What does actuating refer to

Answer 26

putting plans into effect or motion.

Question 27

What is the difference between evaluation and assessment?

Answer 27

Evaluation is examining the worth where as assessment is gathering and comparing results from the past

Question 28

What is storyboarding?

Answer 28

A planning technique used by advertisers to show the main scenes in comic strip style in a commercial, movie, etc.,