Management and Human Resources

Three to Five Year/Future Perspective of the Topic

Managerial planning and goal setting is an important concept used by organizations of all types. Governments, unions, corporations, citizens, organizations, and small businesses all use some form of managerial planning in order to set goals for the future. Although planning and goal setting is developed during the present period, it is intended to be used for the future benefit of the organization. Managers incorporate a variety of plans in order to accomplish tasks and prepare for the future of their organization. Simply, future plans and goals may be created for projects, the organization as a whole, or to plan for upcoming events. While many plans are used for the present time, without a good future perspective, the organization will not be successful.

The U.S. government has set up a council to map out the future of the world. Chapter seven of the text, Management by Richard L. Daft, pointed out the website of the National Intelligence Council (224). Looking as far ahead as 2020, the NIC provides several possible scenarios of how the world may look and evolve throughout the years. They provide policymakers with promising opportunities, as well as negative areas in the world’s development. This agency consults experts from all around the world in order to get an accurate global perspective. The NIC has already published several reports; two of the most recent were named “Global Trends 2010” and “Global Trends 2015 (McConnell, Mike).” These reports contained trends on domestic and international issues, and how they may affect one another. The evolution and growth of developing countries, in addition to areas of concern such as North Korea have been documented. Population, gross domestic product, food, energy, communication, and military are several types of measures that the agency used to create the report. These reports on global trends will help the US government view the stability, economy,...