Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET June 2025 Political Science
Who stated, 'There is nothing absolute in management affairs; seldom do we have to apply the same principle twice in identical conditions; allowance must be made for different changing circumstances'?
AHenri Fayol ✓ Correct
BWoodrow Wilson
CAdam Smith
DTridiv Chakrabarty
Correct answer: (A) Henri Fayol — Henri Fayol made this statement, so the answer is Henri Fayol.
Explanation
★Henri Fayol made this statement, so the answer is Henri Fayol.
★It expresses his principle of flexibility, that management rules are not rigid or absolute.
★Fayol held that the same principle rarely applies in exactly the same way twice.
★Managers must adjust principles to suit different and changing circumstances.
★This is why he called his fourteen principles flexible guides rather than fixed laws.
★Woodrow Wilson and Adam Smith wrote on administration and economics, not this management maxim.
★Tridiv Chakrabarty does not fit, so that option is wrong.
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