Management Planning Paper

Management Planning Paper

By: Elena Valentine

University of Phoenix

I chose the Boeing Company because it is a local company that provides many different jobs for my community. The Boeing Company began when William Boeing began the assembly of the B and W seaplane in his Lake Union Boathouse. This paper highlights the planning process that has been implemented by the Boeing Company, analyze the impact of ethics, legal issues, and corporate social responsibility on management, and examine what influences the company’s strategic, operational, tactical, and contingency planning.

The success and failure of an organization begins and ends with its planning procedures. The first Boeing product was named after its designers, William Boeing and Navy Lt. Conrad Westervelt. This was the beginning for William Edward Boeing. He went on to be the founder of one of the paramount empires of commercial aviation whereby transforming the Pacific Northwest into a major aeronautical center (Boeing 2008). Boeing has become a success because of the impressive ingenuity and precise planning abilities of William Edward Boeing. The Boeing Company became a multi- million dollar organization because of William Edward Boeing’s specific planning strategies. This paper will highlight the planning process implemented at the Boeing Company, analyze the impact of legal issues, ethics, and corporate social responsibility on management, and examine factors that influence the company’s strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency planning.

With the use of efficient planning the Boeing Company adapts to change by identifying opportunities while avoiding problems. Specifically, “strategic planning produces fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does, and why it does it. Strategic planning requires broad-scale information gathering, an exploration of alternatives, and an emphasis on the future implications...