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Instruction 1:

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

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