Read and study the provided hand-outs and make a table of the 14 principles by Henry Fayol and gives its advantages and disadvantages. Same works will not be accepted (100 points).
Principles Advantages Disadvantages
• Enhance the quality of production and • Boredom from efficiency Division of Work repetition • Improves the • Lack of responsibility accuracy and speed of the workers • Facilitates the • Misuse of Power management to work • Lack of self- Authority and efficiently confidence when not Responsibility • Responsible to their properly defined tasks work to the subordinates • If not followed • Creates good consistently it will performance and turn into sensible interrelation discriminatory Discipline • Smoothly build and • It will develop much progress their fear especially to professional careers those sensitive individuals • managers may overlap, causing • Avoids conflict of conflicts and gaps in Interest effort across units and Unity of Command • Avoids creating inconsistencies in confusion priorities • Difficult to explain to employees Unity of Direction • Unified goal • Lack of coordination • Work easier and if it is not coordinated easily to achieve goal well • Duplication of Activities • Unitedly towards the interest • Expensive Subordination of Individual • Attaining the purpose • Conflict of interest Interest of the organization may arise quickly • Motivating the • It may lead to employees violation or abuse • It increases the Remuneration • Take an advantages as productivity and exchange to given efficiency of the remuneration employees • Lack of employee loyalty ones it sees wrong on the higher • Balance of decision position Centralization • Exercising the Chain • Delays in work of Command especially it undergoes several positions for the revisions and the like • Practice chain of • Confusion of persons’ command in authority Scholar Chain • Knowing their senior • Numerous high officers ranking officers • Ones negative atmosphere existed one of the employee it would affect • Maintain a well- everybody in the defined work workplace Order • Creates a positive • Ones there is a atmosphere in the confusion of order it workplace may contribute negative atmosphere due to conflict existence Equity • Treated equally • Difference of • No discrimination individuals judgment a greater possibility to discriminate • Favoritism strikes inequality exist • Not applicable in a long run especially if there are changes to • Secure of the job be made in the Stability • Proper supervision of organization the employees • Reduces the innovation in workplace • Support and • It may fall to false encourage employees discretion to take initiative Initiative • No supervision over • Help increases their actions to be interest and make made them worth • Develop trust and • One deviates mutual understanding everybody follows Espirit de Corps • It creates positive • Different conceptions outcome of the of trusting a person working environment may lead to confusion