ADMINISTRATION PRINCIPLE
PRINCIPLES OF PLANNING
Planning is the first administrative function because it serves as the basis for the other functions.
PRINCIPLES OF PRECISION AND FLEXIBILITY
Precision principle
Flexibility principle
Precision is the lifeblood of planning. This provides the planning with an exact, definitive and appropriate meaning in its content and magnitude
It refers to the fact that a system should be able to adapt to changes in the company based on its needs, operations and management. This is important because flexibility allows plans to adapt to contingencies that may develop in the future.
PRINCIPLE OF OBJECTIVITY DEFINITION
PRINCIPLE OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION
PRINCIPLE OF UNITY AND FEASIBILITY
Unity principle
Principle of feasibility
This principle refers to the fact that all individuals who have the same objective must be directed towards the achievement of a common goal.
In an organization there should be only one plan for each function.
Planning must be based on facts and experience. Planning should always be based on what can realistically be achieved.
Like principles of other branches, the accounting principles seek to standardize and regulate the accounting treatment and exposure as informative elements of resources, operations and results, so that their representation in the financial statements enjoys uniform and transversal criteria and serve as measurement elements. and evaluation of the management of an organization
Many authors have made contributions to the debate between ‘universal and selective services
PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
PRINCIPLES OF CONTROL
The organization is an administrative thread
PRINCIPLE OF THE FUNCTIONAL DEFINITION
PRINCIPLE OF BALANCE AUTHORITY RESPONSIBILITY
PRINCIPLE OF SPECIALIZATION
SCALAR PRINCIPLE
It is the principle that establishes the serial realization of a very specific task. This implies that the production chain must be very well structured, thought out and timed to accommodate this sequence of specialized tasks.
The principle of functional definition requires that each area, department, division and job position be clearly defined in relation to the activities to be carried out, the degree of delegation and the authority relationships established.
Authority flows vertically in the organizational structure, each individual is given authority to perform a task, although the authority can be delegated, but the responsibility falls on the person who has been given the work, if a superior delegates his authority in his subordinate, the superior is not absolved of his responsibility, although the subordinate is responsible to his superior, the responsibility should not be delegated in any situation.
This principle refers to the vertical placement of supervisors in the organization chart of the company, starting from the top and moving to the bottom level, it is an initial requirement to form an effective and efficient organization.
The principles of business management are the norms and values that guide an organization (both its structure and its employees), through different activities and tasks led by the management area.
PRINCIPLE OF IMPERSONALITY OF COMMAND
PRINCIPLE OF DELEGATION
PRINCIPLE OF COMMAND UNIT AND COMMAND RANGE
PRINCIPLE OF INTEREST COORDINATION
Each person should be subordinate only to the superior. It is the principle of single authority, which seeks to avoid confusion or double orders, each subordinate must have only one boss.
Authority arises as a need for the organization to achieve its objectives, not to satisfy the wishes of its managers or collaborators
It is the act of assigning to a subordinate the authority and formal responsibility to carry out specific activities, it requires changing not only the way of thinking and acting, but even the way of wanting since it must respond to the vision and mission established by the business.
For the management to be efficient, it must be directed, at all times, towards the objectives of the company
The purpose of the control is to guarantee that the results of what was planned, organized and distributed conform as much as possible to the pre-established objectives.
The essential in any control system is
A procedure to buy such an activity with the established criteria
Some mechanism that corrects the activity in progress, to achieve the desired results
A means to measure the activity carried out
An objective, a predetermined end, a plan, a line of action, a standard, a norm, a decision rule, a criterion, a unit of measurement.
PRINCIPLE OF ACTION.
PRINCIPLE OF EXCEPTION
STANDARDS DEFINITION PRINCIPLE
PRINCIPLE OF OBJECTIVE GUARANTEES
The control must contribute to the achievement of the objectives through the timely verification of the discrepancies with the plans to understand the corrective action.
All administrative functions are intended to achieve objectives.
The setting of performance and quality standards, when this is established objectively and precisely defined, facilitates the acceptance of who should be responsible for the task and allows to undertake an easier and safer control action.
Varied nature of control standards
Programming standards
Technical performance standards
Ethical standards
Standard costs
Financial indicators
Budgets
Return on investment
Mixed criteria
This principle was formed by Taylor. The manager should be more concerned with major detours than with relatively normal situations.
The exception principle is an information system that presents its data only when the results, effectively verified in practice, are divergent or differ from the expected results in a program.
This principle is also correlated with the cost of control.
Corrective action that adjusts operations to pre-established standards in the essence of control, and its basis is the information that managers receive.
The control is only justified when it indicates provisions capable of correcting the deviations detected or verified, with respect to the plans.