Henri Fayol Introduction

Henri Fyol One of the runner persons to sit down and try to work out what managers do (and what they should do) was a Frenchman called Henri Fayol. Fayol was a dig engineer who became the managing director of an ailing coal mining firm and turned it into a highly successful coal and sword line of credit. All this took place between 1888 and 1918, when he retired. In 1916, after umpteen years of thinking about the job of the manager, he published a small contain called General and Industrial Management.Henry Fayol was years ahead of his eon in linking strategy and organizational theory and in emphasizing the posit for management development and the qualities of leadership. Igor Ansoff, in Corporate Strategy (1965) said that Fayol judge imaginatively and soundly most of the more recent analyses of modern business practice, although Peter Drucker in his great compendium Management Tasks, Responsibilities and Practice (1973), criticized the action of Fayols functional approach to larger and more complex organizations than the bingle he knew and managed.Oddly enough, it was years before a translation appeared in English, notwithstanding though it contains a great deal of wisdom and sense. Part of the book deals with the elements or functions of management, and Fayol identifies five such functions. They are Forecasting and Planning Organizing need Co-ordination Control From his own long experience in Industry, Fayol identified xiv General Principles of Management, or guidelines, and he emphasized that these are not besotted but have to be adapted to suit the particular require of the situation.