X
Why register?
Welcome to the world's #1 website about management.
- Discover 1000s of knowledge centers.
- Learn from colleagues and experts.
- Share best practices with 1,000,000 members.
- Accelerate your management career.
- 100% free.
|
Add #15 Principle: Conformity to the Basic Origin
Konopatov S.N., Professor, Russian Federation
Aristotle noticed that well-being everywhere depends on two things: a choice of the correct goal, and a choice of a correct way of its achievement. In other words, to do the right things in the right way.
The 14 principles of Fayol define how to reach the goal (define the right way), but don't define, how correctly choose the goal (don't define the right things), what goal is correct.
As Peter Drucker has noticed, there is nothing more useless than to perform work effectively, that is not necessary to do at all.
So: what is necessary to do?
The answer has been given by N. Machiavelli with the concept of the "Basic Origin". Any organization which has deviated from the «basic origin», loses success & stability.
What is the «basic origin» of any system? It is the function, that is necessary to the suprasystem for which' execution the system was created, and which it should execute.
In my opinion (hypothesis), it is necessary to... Register
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Do you wish to study further? You can learn more from the summary, forum, discussions, lessons, courses, training, instructions, expert tips, best practices and education sources. Register.
|
|
|
|
|
Special Interest Group Leader
|
|
|
More on Principles of Management - Fayol
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
