Order

ORDER

 

According to Fayol there should be proper, systematic and orderly arrangement of physical and social factors, such as land, raw materials, tools and equipments and employees respectively. As per view, there should be safe, appropriate and specific place for every article and every place to be used effectively for a particular activity and commodity. There should be specific place for everyone and everyone should have specific place. This principle also stresses scientific selection and appointment of employees on every job.

 

One interpretation of this principle is that in organizations there should be a place for everything and everything should be in its place. Another interpretation is hat an organization’s materials should be in the right place at the right time and its employees should be assigned to the jobs best suited to them. Basically, the principle provides a form of formal organizational control.

Today’s organizations still need to have their materials in the right place at the right time. Organizations require formalized information gathering systems, which this classical principle also suggests. What seems to have changed, however, is the notion of control over internal activities. Today, US organizations are beginning to gather information about their internal activities not so much for the purpose of internal control as for the purpose of providing employees information needed about production and quality strategy. Today, US organizations, to a greater extent than in the past, gather and use internal information more for the purpose of efficient coordination and decision making than for the purpose of control.