Henri Fayol (1841-1925)

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Henri Fayol is the most misunderstood and mistranslated of management theorists. In too many texts, Fayol is lumped together with Frederick Taylor as one more mechanistic theory of managing and organizing. Yet, Fayol's metaphors and tropes or decidedly organic, about trees and nervous systems.  And Fayol thought Taylor mechanistic, and a bit too operational. Fayol wanted to move management education beyond the training of engineers and now reengineers, and fought to insure that management would include a focus on Liberal Arts. He feared the training of management was too narrow, in its focus on engineering.  Fayol was also about ethics. Seeing no good scientific basis for managing and organizing principles he crafted his own Theocratic ones.

Boje & Dennehy Managing in Postmodern World - Chapter on Follett, Fayol, Weber, and Taylor. http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/mpw.html See Chap 2 

• Another, shorter overview http://www.onepine.info/fayol.htm

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Fayol

Fayol, Henri. 1949. General and Industrial Management. Translated from the French edition (Dunod) by Constance StorrsLondon: Pitman.