7.Remuneration of personnel. Fayol looked for some basic principles in the method of payment that remain contentious:
it shall assure fair remuneration;
it shall encourage keenness by rewarding well-directed effort;
it shall not lead to over-payment going beyond reasonable limits.
8.
Centralization. Part of the 'natural order', Fayol considered that an element of centralization must always be present. He regarded the debate betwen centralization and decentralization to be one which had no precise solution.
9.Scalar chain (line of authority). The unity of command can lead to excessively chains of authority which hinder communication. Hierarchic organizations regularly insisted that departments communicated with each other only through their heads. This meant that the volume of work handled by a department mushroomed as items went up and down the chain in a game of 'pass the parcel'. Fayol rightly condemned this as inefficient and advocated a 'gang plank' arrangement whereby juniors involved in regular interactions with other departments dealt directly with each other, cutting out the hierarchy. Unwittingly, Fayol provided a key to modern organizations which he could not have conceived. As will be seen later, electronic gang planks have become so efficient that networked organizations are possible which no longer have any requirement whatsoever for layers of management.