Suppliers- They supply or do not wish to supply products, raw materials, services and even finance to the firm.
Labour unions -They deal with the supply of labour
Mission and objectives
Environmental Scanning
Strategy formation
Strategy implementation
Evaluation and control
To ensure that the provided information is accurate
To ensure that the information is valuable
The purpose of controlling is to keep deviations from planned activities and performances levels to a minimum so that the mission and objectives of the firm can be achieved with a few problems as possible
Stage 1 Assignment of duties to subordinates
Stage 2 Trensfer of authority
Stage 3 Acceptance of Assignment
Stage 4 Creation of responsibility