In the practical sense the word principle may be applied to any underlying cause of more or less correlated facts in any particular field of investig… - James D. Mooney

As coordination is the all-inclusive principle of organization, it must have its own principle and foundation in Authority, or the supreme coordinating power. Always, in every form of organization, this supreme coordinating authority must rest somewhere, else there would be no directive for any truly coordinated effort. The term authority as here used need imply nothing of autocracy.

The supreme coordinating authority must rest somewhere and in some form in every organization, else there could be no such thing as organized.

Organization is the form of every human association for the attainment of a common purpose.