Managers identify and select appropriate organizational goals and courses of action to perform the ________ task.
A) planning
B) organizing
C) leading
D) controlling

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To perform the planning task, managers identify and select appropriate organizational goals and courses of action; they develop strategies for how to achieve high performance. The three steps involved in planning are (1) deciding which goals the organization will pursue, (2) deciding what strategies to adopt to attain those goals, and (3) deciding how to allocate organizational resources to pursue the strategies that attain those goals.

Managers Identify and Select Appropriate Organizational Goals and Courses of Action