5 Limitations Or Challenges Of Organization Planning

1. Leads to rigidity: The quality of flexibility is inherent in planning, in case of need changes can be brought in, but it must be admitted that only small changes are possible. Big changes are neither possible nor in the interest of the organization.

2. Does not work in dynamic environment: Planning is based on the anticipation of future happenings. Since future is uncertain and dynamic, therefore, the future anticipations are not always true. 

Therefore, to consider planning as the basis of success is like a leap in the dark.

Generally, a longer period of planning makes it less effective. Therefore, it can be said that planning does not work in dynamic environment.

3. Reduces creativity: Under planning all the activities connected with the attainment of objectives of the organization are per-determined. 

Consequently, everybody works as they have been directed to do and as it has been made clear in the plans.

Therefore, it checks their incisiveness. It means that they do not think about appropriate ways of discovering new alternatives. 

According to Terry, “Planning strangulates the initiative of the employees and compels them to work in an inflexible manner.”

4. Involves cost: Planning is a small work but its process is really big. Planning becomes meaningful only after traversing a long path. It takes a lot of time to cover this path.

During this entire period the managers remain busy in collecting a lot of information and analyzing it. In this way, when so many people remain busy in the same activity, the organization is bound to face huge costs.

5. Time consuming: Planning is a blessing in facing a definite situation but because of its long process it cannot face sudden emergencies. 

Sudden emergencies can be in the form of some unforeseen problem or some opportunity of profits and there has been no planning for all these situations beforehand and which now requires immediate decision.

6. Does not guarantee success: Sometimes the managers think that planning solves all their problems. Such thinking makes them neglect their real work and the adverse effect of such an attitude has to be faced by the organization.

In this way, planning offers the managers a false sense of security and makes them careless. Hence, we can say that mere planning does not ensure success; rather efforts have to be made for it. Have a nice day.