Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol ( born July 29, 1841 in Constantine Opel, † November 19, 1925 in Paris ), French mining engineer, is the founder of the ( French ) Management and Public Administration.

Life

The graduate of the academy of Saint- Étienne ( 1860) began as a nineteen- year-old engineer in the mining company Compagnie de Commentry - Fourchambeau - Decazeville which he headed from 1888 to 1918. In 1916 he published his findings in the factory administration Industrielle et Générale, a few years after Frederick Winslow Taylor, the founder of Scientific Management.

Work

Fayol as one of the founders of the management theory stresses in contrast to the technocratic approach of Scientific Management, the role of the individual manager and borders from one of the first functions of the manager. Fayol recognized the similarities of management regardless of the purpose of an organization and deduced a need for a management doctrine from.

Among the universal, occurring in all organizations ie, function groups Fayol assigns the following management functions:

This classification has proven itself in its basic features and has since been extended by various researchers (see Wolfgang H. Staehle 1999). Fayol developed fourteen management principles as guidelines on corporate governance. The most common principle is the principle of unity of order placement ( "Un agent ne doit recevoir the ordres que d'un chef" ) and the so-called Fayolsche bridge.

Works (selection)

• Administration industrielle et générale - prévoyance organization - commandement, coordination - contrôle. Dunod, Paris 1966. German edition: General and industrial management. 2nd edition Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1929 ( translated by Karl Reineke ).