| Planning | Organising |
| 1. Meaning | Planning is a management function that decides in advance what to do, how to do, when to do, where to do and who is to do it. | Organising refers to the process of putting together various resources and activities of the organisation into a system |
| 2. Objective | The objective of planning is to set the goals and choose the means to achieve those goals. | The main objective of organising is to identity and bring together all the resources. |
| 3. Area of function | Planning involves setting objectives, identifying alternative courses of actions and selecting the best plan for the organisation. | Organising involves identifying the activities and grouping of relative activities of the organisation. |
| 4. Order | Planning is the first and foremost function of management. It precedes every other function. | In organising function, internal as well as external factors are considered to make arrangement of resources. |
| 5. Nature | Planning is continuous in nature. It is related with those resources which are required for achieving the targets. | Organising is related with all the available resources as they need to be properly arranged. |
| 6. Levels of management | Top management is responsible for preparing planning for the activities of the entire organisation. | Usually, the function of organising is undertaken by the top level management and middle level management. |
