Henri Fayol, the father of the school of Systematic Management,
realised that organisations were becoming more complex and
required their managers to work more professionally. His
motivation was to create a theoretical foundation for an
educational program for managers who lacked formal training in
those days. Basing his work on his experience as a successful
managing director of a mining company, he developed generic
'Principles of Management' to help organisations achieve optimum
performance working toward their goals. Fayol described fourteen
Principles of Management with the understanding that his list
was neither exhaustive, nor universally applicable: 1. Division
of labour achieving the maximum efficiency from labour through
specialisation across all aspects of organisation (commercial,
financial, security, accounting, managerial) rather than just
technical activities. Fayol did not provide the level of detail
that Taylor's competing Scientific Management school prescribed.
Scientific Management broke i