HENRY FAYOL

HENRY FAYOL WAS born in in 1841,Istanbul. Fayol has been described as the father of modern operational management theory.
Fayol had worked as a director of a mining and metallurgical company in France. His book “General and Industrial Management” was published in 1916.he indicated five functions that still form the basis of much of modern management thought and action:1-Planning: Examining the future and drawing up a plan or action. The elements of strategy.
2-Organizing: Build up the structure, both material and human, of the undertaking.
3-Commanding: Maintain the activity among the personnel.
4-Coordinating: Binding together, unifying and harmonizing all activity and effort.
5-Controlling: Seeing that everything occurs in conformity with established rule and expressed command.
Fayol thought that management is a universal human activity and thought that it is important to have unity of command. Division of work, discipline, unity of direction, remuneration of employees, scalar chain, equity, initiative, authority and responsibility, unity of command, subordination of individual interest to general interest, centralization, order, stability of personnel were some of his basic principles for achieving a good organization.
Fayol often associated with Frederick Taylor. Although his ideas have become a universal part of the modern management concepts, some writers associate with with Frederick Winslow Taylor. A primary difference between Fayol and Taylor was that Taylor viewed management processes from the bottom up, while Fayol viewed it from the top down.