As coordination is the all-inclusive principle of organization, it must have its own principle and foundation in Authority, or the supreme coordinati… - James D. Mooney

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

Delegation means the conferring of a specified authority by a higher authority. In its essence it involves a dual responsibility. The one to vhom responsibility is delegated becomes responsible to the superior for doing the job. but the superior remains responsible for getting the Job done. This principle of delegation is the center of all processes in formal organization. Delegation is inherent in the very nature of the relation between superior and subordinate. The moment the objective calls for the organized effort of more than one person, there is always leadership with its delegation of duties.

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 investigation. The word principles, as applied to organization, is used by us strictly in the latter meaning.

Organization is as old as human society itself.