The top management of Phospher Ltd. is engaged in organisation planning but they do not involve middle and supervisory level of management. These two levels of management are neither allowed to deviate from their plans nor are they permitted to act on their own. They keep thinking along the same lines as others so that nothing new or innovative gets added to the process.

(i) Which limitation of planning is reflected in above case?

(ii) What is the meaning of this limitation in the context of the case study?

(iii) What remedial step will Phospher Ltd., take to overcome this limitation?

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(i) Planning reduces creativity and stifles initiative.

(ii) This means that middle and the supervisory levels of management will conduct all daily activities according to the guidelines set by the top management thus disabling their empowerment and restricting discoveries, fears or new approaches to work.

(iii) Phospher Ltd. could introduce single-use plans like programmes that encourage recreation or training for middle-level and supervisory levels of management.

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