Fayol’s principles of management still hold good. There’s no doubt that many management gurus have added or modified these fourteen fundamental principles of management defined by Fayol.
Principle no four explains the unity of command and its imperative necessity in the management of an organisation. Unity of command complies that the organisation. Unity of command complies that the subordinates should recieve the orders only from one superior officer. Accordingly they will report to the same superior officer. It means that an employee at any moment will not recieve instructions about there duties from different superior officers. This makes the performance better because the emplohe yee will not be con fused due to orders of different people.
The single accountability principle ensures the proper functioning of the personnel in an organisations chain of hierarchy. Any deviation from this apart from creating confusion also affects the performance. It is harmful for the common goals & objectives of the organisation.
Further the unity of command emphasizes on individual employee on individual employee by recommending that they should report to only one supervisor. So thus the supervisor as well as the reportee understand the importance of the value of unity of command.
The principle is particularly important for the armed forces or any defense organisation where multiple instructions can cause a disaster.
Blog is written in Vikram Kakri.
