HNS 402: MANAGEMENT

ADMINISTRATION OF NURSING SERVICES

Group 1: Henry Fayol
MEMBERS
1.CHACHA BRIAN- H32/2739/2019
2. LEVINS MBOYA-H32/137617/2019
3. CAROLINE WAHU MWANGI-H32/136512/2019
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Personal life of Henri Fayol

HENRY FAYOL (1841-1925)

• Henri Fayol was born in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey
in 1841.
• His father, an engineer, was appointed building
supervisor for the construction of a bridge over the
Golden Horn (Galata Bridge). The family returned to
France in 1847.
• He studied mining engineering at the ‘École
Nationale Superieure des Mines’ academy in Saint-
Étienne.
•Henri Fayol started his career as an engineer at the mining
company Compagnie de Commentry Fourchambeau
Decazeville in Commentry at the age of 19.
•He was hired by Stéphane Mony, who had decided to hire
the best engineers from the Saint-Étienne Mining School, and
Fayol joined the firm as an engineer and trainee manager.
•Henri Fayol married the French Adelade Celeste marie Saule
in 1875. Together they had three children: Madeleine-Marie-
Eugenie, Enri Joseph and Marie-Celeste.
•In 1878, Henri Fayol was invited to present a report on the
self-ignition of coal exposed to air. The report was well
received and Fayol gained a good reputation. As a result, he
became an influential person in the field of mining.
• In 1888, he became the Managing Director of this mining company that
employed over 1,000 people.
• Upon receiving the position, Fayol presented the board with a plan to restore
the firm. The board accepted the proposal. At that time, the company was at
the verge of bankruptcy. With rich and broad administrative experience,
Fayol contributed a lot in turning around the company's fortunes.
• Thanks to his practical knowledge and expert management skills, Henri Fayol
was excellent at guiding his company through difficult times.
• Under his leadership, the company became one of the most successful and
largest producers of steel and iron in France. During his time as director, he
made changes to improve the working situations in the mines, such as
allowing employees to work in teams, and changing the division of labor.
Later, more mines were added to his duties.
• Henri Fayol was very successful in this position for over 30 years until 1918
when he retired.
• In 1916, Henri Fayol published his work experience
in the book Administration Industrielle et Generale
(General and Industrial Management).
• Fayol died in Paris on November 19, 1925. He was
84 years old.
Describe their theory/Contribution to
Management.

(1). First to identify four functions of management. He was the first to give the
functions of management in terms of Planning, Organizing, Directing and
Controlling by giving Plan, organize, command, coordinate and control as the main
functions of a manager.
(2). Classification of activities Industrial undertaking. He classified the activities of
an industrial undertaking as under:
(a) Technical activities: activities relating to production.
(b) Commercial activities: activities relating to buying and selling.
(c) Financial activities: activities relating to arrangement and use of finances.
(d) Security activities: activities relating to the safety of human and physical
resources.
(e) Accounting activities: activities relating to preparing the accounting records.
(f) Managerial activities: activities relating to getting the work done through
others.
(3). Qualities
of manager.
Henry Fayol suggested the qualities of a good
manager:1. Physical qualities.2. Moral qualities.3.
Education.4. Knowledge. 5. Experience.
(4). Fourteen Principles of Management:
Fayol has given fourteen principles of management.-
Division of work- Authority and responsibility- Discipline-
Unity of Command- Unity of direction- Subordination of
individual interest - Remuneration- Centralization- Scalar
chain- Equity -Stability- Initiative- Esprit de Corps
Describe how you would apply their contribution/theories of
management today. Preferably among BSCN level 3 students
rotating in your ward.

• The chain of command will enable me to easily solve issues that may arise
among the students.
• A good communication system will enable me to simplify the process and
give the students an opportunity to maximize their potentials in working
and learning in the ward.
• Students who show outstanding performance in the ward through
attending to the patients will be encouraged because this directly
influences growth.
• I will divide labour among the students to provide them with continuous
learning and a great experience that is required.
• I will ensure continuous training of the students because it prepares them
to be more skilled, more knowledgeable, and more competent.
• Offering basic motivation that involves a reward so that when an
individual compares him/herself to their colleagues and discovers a fair
result, they will be motivated
• By evaluating patterns in the wards to determine the best
management approach. This way the managers are able to
collaborate on different programs and work as a collective whole
rather than as isolated units.
• By employing authoritarian style of management in the wards,
where the team members show little passion for their work. But
if there is willingness to learn and are enthusiastic about what
they do, managers are likely to use participative management.
• By assigning the students a particular job based on their skills
and abilities and evaluating them based on the quantity and
quality of their work.
• By allowing the students to voice their opinions, frustrations and
successes which in turn would make them feel valuable.
Explain how you would apply the theory/contribution in research today. If there are already
validated research tools developed in relation to the particular theory present them in class.

How Henry Fayol’s theory could be applied in research today:

 Using Henry Fayol’s Principles for Better Classroom Management. Fayol’s principles
could be used to manage the classroom more efficiently by minimizing conflict
situations and thereby creating more comfortable educational environments. It is
argued that these principles can be of a great help to the students in coping with the
classroom difficulties arising chiefly out of peer-competition and other extraneous
pressures.
 Research on Modern management. Fayolism is a theory of management that
analyses and synthesizes the role of management in organizations. According to H.
Fayol managerial excellence is a technically ability and can be acquired. He
developed theories and principles of management which are universally accepted
and make him universalistic. . Fayol’s principles of management meet the
requirements of modern management.
 Business environment management. Fayol believed that organizations could
certainly differ in terms of their size or structure. His idea of general management
can be extended to the major activities of an organization such as commercial
activities such as buying or selling; accounting; security activities or the protection of
people and property; technical activities or manufacturing; financial activities or use
of capital; and managerial activities.
 Benefits of division of labour amongst employees in a work place. Henry Fayol’s
first principle for management states that staff perform better at work when
they are assigned jobs according to their specialities. At an organisation level
such a hospital setup a study could be done to determine if division of work
among health care workers would them perform better.
 Centralization of knowledge and decision making in an organization and its
effects on performance. Fayol suggests that decision-making should be
centralized. This study could focus on the effects of decision-making and dishing-
out of orders should come from the top management (central) to the middle
management; and the long run performance of the organisation.
 Vertical communication in an organisation and its disadvantages. H. Fayol
asserted that communication in an organization should be vertical only; that a
single uninterrupted chain of authority should exist in organizations. It will
therefore be necessary to study the pros and cons of this vertical
communication in any organization. Are there any negative effects felt from the
employees of the organization? What are the effects on their self- esteem?
• Relative stability at jobs and its effects on performance. Fayol
expresses the need to recruit the right staff and train them on
the job with a hope to retain them for long. The basis of this
principle is the belief that such staff with a secured tenure will
put back into the organization the knowledge and experience
which they may have garnered in the course of working for
the organisation. A research could be carried out to rule out
the validity of such bases.
• Discipline as a principle in management. Discipline is one of
the 14 principles that Fayol believed is a prerequisite for
better management. This study could be carried out in order
to advocate for clearly-defined rules and regulations aimed at
achieving good employee discipline and obedience.
Critical View of Fayol's Theory of
Management.

Negative critique
1. His theory is too rigid and it will only shows its effectiveness in
formal organization structure.
2. His Functional Theory is too management oriented and often
neglect the wellbeing of the workers. Workers often treated as a
mechanical tools which their only concern is how to follow
orders.
3. His principles of management were created mainly from the
point of view of the top-level managers. Fayol believed that only
managers at the highest level make decisions that are vital in
making a business successful when according to a more post-
capitalistic view, the significance of middle and lower level
managers in an organization should not be overlooked.
4. On the concept of unity of command. This states that
employees should only have one direct supervisor that they
report to and all employees are under the chain of command of
the sitting manager.
5. Increasingly, it has become common to work permanently with
people who work for a company but are not their employees. A lot
of these situations result from the outsourcing of all work that
does not have a career ladder into senior management. An
example, is how hospital opts to outsource a cleaning services
company to be providing those services instead of having their
own workers. The cleaning workers are under management and
supervision different from that of the hospital. This has rendered
Fayol's principle of unity of command non applicable in modern
day management (although does not contradict it).
 Positive critique
• 1. His Principles advocate teamwork and working together for the
mutual benefit of the business.
• 2. The Five Functions reveal the need for organizations to plan and be
agile in the face of changing conditions.
• 3. Fayol was one of the first people to recognize that management is a
continuous process.
• 4. Before human resources management, Fayol wrote about motivating
people by inspiring initiative, commanding respect through values, and
ensuring that people have the time and training they need to be happy
and productive at work.
• 5. The manager who is respected for their values, leads by example ,
makes time to get to know their employees, and gives them the training
they need, sounds a lot like a modern manager.
References

• Mohd Shakir Assistant Professor, Department of

Education, Aligarh Muslim University, Murshidabad
Centre, 742223, W.B. (INDIA)
• Raymond Edwards Department of Business & Public
Administration, Southern University at New Orleans
USA
• Brunsson, K 2008, ‘Some Effects of
Fayolism’, International Studies of Management
and Organizations, vol. 38 no 1, pp. 30-47.