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

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