Henri FAYOL

HENRI FAYOL

Henrı Fayol(born in Istanbul in 1841) who has been described as the father of modern operational management theory was one of the most influential contributors to modern concepts of management.

His working life fell into four periods:

(1) his technical publications;

(2) publication of Administration Industrielle et Générale and its preceding

developmental speeches;

(3) the promotion of the Doctrine Administrative, and related publications;

(4) his management consulting reports.

Fayol proposed that there are five primary functions of management: (1) planning, (2) organizing, (3) commanding, (4) coordinating, and (5) controlling and he claimed that management theories can be developed as well as he started to work on it. Although his ideas have become a universal part of the modern management concepts, some writers continue to associate him with Frederick Winslow Taylor. One of the many areas that Fayol addressed to Taylor is the deal of the Taylor's scientific management and the efficient organization of production in the context of a competitive enterprise and a primary difference between Fayol and Taylor was that Taylor viewed management processes from the bottom up, while Fayol viewed it from the top down. The 14 principles of management were discussed in detail in his book published in 1917, Administration industrielle et générale. It was f published in English as General and Industrial Management in 1949 and is widely considered a foundational work in classical management theory.

References:

General and industrial management (book from metu library)

Wikipedia

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