For Health Extension Practitioners the following principles are the most important for Application in the field of community health:

• Team spirit
• Division of labour
• Focus on results not activities

1  Team spirit

Team spirit is essential for any organisational work. This principle advocates the benefits of working as a team and building good morale amongst everyone you work with, including volunteers and members of model households. As a manager you will need to ensure that you develop and maintain morale, both individually and communally, and through building team spirit. This helps promote an atmosphere of mutual trust and understanding.

2  Division of labour

The principle of division of labour is that work must be shared or divided fairly amongst the team. Normally, in a team, there needs to be division of labour, where each category of staff exercises their particular skill towards achieving specific objectives The role of management is to assign a balanced proportion of each type of worker to the work to be done.

3  Focus on results not activities

One of the principles of management is to make sure that everybody within the organisation has a clear understanding of the goals and objectives, and makes each person aware of their own roles and responsibilities in achieving those objectives. This is commonly called