A Study on the Planning and Targeting Applications in Forest Products Industry Enterprises (Case of Istanbul Province)

Abstract

Planning and targeting is the first step of business management function. The success of management activities in eachbusiness is achieved through effective planning and targeting. Managers can allocate more time to planning and targeting than other functions.Priorities should be defined when determining processes in a business. The first step in planning and targeting is to determine where you want tobe reached. Also, procurement and selection of all kinds of sources which will achieve these targets are included in planning and targeting. Inthis study, it was tried to determine how much the managers in the different forest industry enterprises operating in İstanbul have an importantrole in achieving the success of the enterprise in terms of planning and targeting function. In the study, a scale consisting of 31 questions was setup for the planning and targeting to the employees in the enterprises. The number of surveys evaluated was 271. The results obtained frommanagers and other employees in different forest products sectors were tested in SPSS statistical program with some other factors and the resultswere presented in detail.