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Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. [2] He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously.
Fayolism was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized the role of management in organizations, developed around 1900 by the French manager and management theorist Henri Fayol (1841–1925). It was through Fayol's work as a philosopher of administration that he contributed most widely to the theory and practice of organizational ...
In 1888 Henri Fayol became director-general of the company, holding office until 1918. [4] In 1890 another strike broke out in Commentry due to the dismissal of 300 miners chosen from the most active socialists. Thivrier, now a deputy, spoke out against the interventions and provocations of the army and gendarmerie in support of the mining ...
Henri Fayol ( (1841–1925) became a member of the CCHF in 1900. He was a member of the board of the Comité des forges and administrator of the Société de Commentry, Fourchambault et Decazeville. [12] Fayol justified his use of the CCHF to lobby the government on principles of economic liberalism. [13]
In 1916, Henri Fayol formulated one of the first definitions of control as it pertains to management: Control of an undertaking consists of seeing that everything is being carried out in accordance with the plan which has been adopted, the orders which have been given, and the principles which have been laid down.
Henri Fayol - management (1910s) Armand V. Feigenbaum - quality control (1950s) Tim Ferriss; Harry Anson Finney (1886–1966) - American accountancy author; Ronald Fisher - statistics (1920s) Mary Follett - organizational studies (1930s) Nicolai J. Foss; R. Edward Freeman; Mike L. Fry; Adrian Furnham
Lyndall Fownes Urwick MC (3 March 1891 – 5 December 1983) was a British management consultant and business thinker.He is recognised for integrating the ideas of earlier theorists like Henri Fayol into a comprehensive theory of management administration.
In 1860 Mony decided to hire the best engineers from the Saint-Étienne Mining School, and Henri Fayol joined the firm as an engineer and trainee manager. Mony made Fayol his protege, and Fayol succeeded him as manager of the Commentry Mine and eventually as managing director of Commentry-Fourchambault and Decazeville. [13]