Planning Premises (1)
Planning premises are those basic assumptions upon which the process of planning proceeds.
Planning involves making a choice of action on the basis of assumptions of what is likely to
happen in the future which is totally uncertain. These assumptions or premises are the postulates.
A manager tries to make assumptions on the basis of likely happenings in future and bases his
present decisions on those. In case the assumptions or premises happen as assumed earlier then
decisions will be proper; in case the premises change then plans will have to be modified. Such
premises constitute the ground on which plans stand.