Features of principles of management

Priciples of Management

Features

1. Evolutionary: Management principles are not developed overnight or they are not based on personal feeling of an individual. Proper observation and experimentation is done before making any concept a principle.

2. General Guidelines: Management pricniples are general guidelines to action and decision making. They are not readymade solutions to problems. Their applicability differ according to the nature, size and requirement of the organisation.

3. Influence human behaviour: principles of management are meant for regulating human behaviour and getting higher performance from individuals. However, due to complexity of human behaviour, its applicability is limited.

4. Universal: principles of management are applied to all types of organisaions irrespective of their nature and size and in all situations. E.g. priniple of unity of command is applied to all types of organisations.

5. Flexible: Principles can be applied differently in under different conditions. Some changes can be made in their application according to the requirement of the company. They can be easily modified by the managers who are using them. E.g. degree of centralisation and decentralisaton vary in different organisations according to their nature and size.

6. Contingent: This means thet management principles are dependent on the situations prevailing in the organisation. E.g. principle of team spirit is very important for organisarions where work is carried out by group of people whereas it of no use for the companies where work is performed by individuals and not by group.

7. Based on cause and effect relationship: Principles tell us clearly that if a particular principle is applied in a situation, what would be its effect. E.g. principle of division of labour leads to specialisation and increase in efficiency. Here division of labour is the cause and efficiency is the effect.