Fayol's principles of management provided continue to provide a general management perspective for practicing managers and an instructional tool for academicians teaching in the field of management.
His notion of a principle was not rigid since"there is nothing rigid or absolute in management affairs, it is all a question of proportion" (Fayol, 1949, p. 19).
Likewise, Fayol did not regard his list of principles as fixed. Rather, Fayol believed that the actual number of principles was arbitrary and his original list non-exhaustive