6.26.2011

Management principles

The only writer who discusses the principles of management is Henry Fayol. According to him, there are 14 principles of management that need to be applied in the execution of tasks, but is flexible, meaning not to be applied at once, but adapted to the situation. Fourteen principles are as follows:

a. The division of labor. On each business entity where there are a number of activities to achieve a certain aim, then among those people there must be division of labor. Each person must be clear what to do.
b. The powers and responsibilities. Every official in something specific business entity shall have power / authority and responsibility.
c. Discipline. In any agency there must be discipline, that is something that became the basis for the agency force.
d. Unity of command. Namely that an employee receives orders from one superior only.
e. Unity of direction. That the purpose of each unit, and the purpose of something a business entity as a whole must not conflict with one another.
f. The interests of individuals must be under the public interest.
g. Payment of fair wages.
h. Centrality or centralization. There are various kinds of authority should be centralized, on the contrary there are various kinds of authority that can be divided or delegated to certain officials.
i. Lines of authority. With this principle meant that the line of authority within an organization must be clear.
j. Discipline. There must be order either in terms of material and in terms of people.
k. Justice. For each subordinate loyal to his superiors, then each employer must practice justice which gives to each person what they are entitled. In a general sense, justice means the application of noble values
​​that contain the obligation of everyone to work together for the welfare of the organization.
l. Stability employees. Do not be too frequent turnover, either due to displacement or because of dismissal.
m. Initiative. To each person should be given the opportunity to express or to run the initiative, both about how to work, work procedures, or run the new plans in the implementation of its works.
n. Mental unity. On the chest of each officer must be embedded soul unity or loyalty to the group. Loyalty to the group is one important aspect to the emergence of cooperation in a number of people to achieve common goals. Becomes the duty of every leader to foster unity of spirit on the chest of each subordinate.