Henri Fayol

1841 - 1925
 Henri Fayol
(born 1841 in Istanbul; died 1925 in Paris )

 Fayol was one of the most

influential contributors to modern
concepts of management.
 He proposed that there are five

primary functions of management

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 Five primary functions of

management
 (1) planning (2) organizing
 (3) commanding (4) coordinating

(5) controlling

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 Fayol's
work has stood the test of
time and has been shown to be
relevant and appropriate to
contemporary management.

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 Henri Fayol

 Many of today’s management texts

including Daft (2005) have reduced
the five functions to four:
 (1) planning (2) organizing (3)

leading and (4) controlling. Daft's

text is organized around Fayol's four
functions.
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 Fayol believed management

theories could be developed, then
taught.
 His theories were published in a

monograph titled General and

Industrial Management (1916).

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 General and Industrial
Management
 Thisis an extraordinary little book
that offers the first theory of
general management and
statement of management
principles.

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 Henri Fayol

 Fayol
suggested that it is
important to have unity of
command: a concept that
suggests there should be only one
supervisor for each person in an
organization.

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 LikeSocrates, Fayol suggested

that management is a universal
human activity that applies
equally well to the family as it
does to the corporation.

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 Fayolhas been described as the

father of modern operational
management theory.

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 Although his ideas have become a

universal part of the modern
management concepts, some
writers continue to associate
Fayol with Fredric Winslow Taylor.

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 Fredric Winslow Taylor

 Taylor'sscientific management
deals with the efficient
organisation of production in the
context of a competitive
enterprise that has to control its
production costs.

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 Claude George
 According to Claude George (1968),
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.
 George's comment may have

originated from Fayol himself.

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 Inthe classic General and

Industrial Management Fayol
wrote that "Taylor's approach
differs from the one we have
outlined in that he examines the
firm from the "bottom up."

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 Henri Fayol
 He starts with the most elemental
units of activity -- the workers'
actions -- then studies the effects
of their actions on productivity,
devises new methods for making
them more efficient, and applies
what he learns at lower levels to
the hierarchy...
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 He suggests that Taylor has staff

analysts and advisors working
with individuals at lower levels of
the organization to identify the
ways to improve efficiency.

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 According to Fayol, the approach
results in a "negation” of the
principle of unity of command.

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