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Chapter 5 Organizational Goal Setting and Planning

1. Mission Statement. Select a company you are interested in or choose one from the Company Index at the back of this text. Using a search engine, such as http://www.alltheweb.com , key in the company name, followed by the words mission statement. Because not all companies include their mission statements on their Web sites, be prepared to choose more than one company until you find one that does publish its mission statement. Complete this exercise by submitting to your instructor a printout similar to the following for the company you selected:

Our Mission

Do a great job for our customers, employees, and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide Internet economy.

Our Values

• Customer Orientation
• Results Orientation
• Risk Taking
• Great Place to Work
• Quality
• Discipline

Our Objectives

• Extend silicon leadership
• Deliver architectural innovation for convergence
• Pursue opportunities worldwide

2. Goal Setting. You have learned in this chapter about organizational goal setting. Many similarities exist between organizational and personal goal setting. The skills you develop in setting personal goals will easily transfer to an organizational setting. This exercise will allow you to practice personal goal setting. Use one of the following sites or locate one of your own that will help you write a personal goal statement. Your goal statement should reflect specific ideas you learned about goal statements from the Web site.

http://www.topachievement.com/goalsetting.html
http://www.about-goal-setting.com
http://www.bodyresults.com/E2SMARTgoals.asp

3. Contingency Plans. Public Safety Canada is Canada’s lead department for public safety. It develops and implements policies and standards for emergency management and national security. It is responsible for issuing timely alerts and works with emergency management associations across Canada. In this exercise you will focus on Public Safety Canada preparedness information located at: http://publicsafety.gc.ca/index-en.asp Select a disaster topic, read the provided preparedness information, and write a brief outline of a contingency plan for what an organization should do before, during, and after the disaster.