text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1751-1348.htm Henri Fayol‚ practitioner and theoretician – revered and reviled Mildred Golden Pryor and Sonia Taneja Department of Marketing and Management‚ Texas A&M University-Commerce‚ Commerce‚ Texas‚ USA Abstract Purpose – Fayol’s theories were the original foundation for management as a discipline and as a profession. Also Fayol was the first to advocate management education. Yet he has critics who revile him (or at least
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Mintzberg‚ H. 1994‚ ‘rounding out the manager’s job: Managing through people‚ Sloan Management Review‚ vol 36‚ no.1‚ pp. 11. In this article Mintzberg reviewed that managing through people bringing them one step closer to managerial action instead of information roles. The author used Hawthorne’s organizational experiments as their data gained which demonstrated in 1930s to describe the importance of interpersonal roles. His research focused on the managerial roles‚ which are interpersonal‚ informational
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Century. Henri Fayol (1841-1925) was a mining engineer who later in his life preached concepts of management that could stem from his experience. One of them that is extensively applied in contemporary business management is the idea that “technical expertise can be destroyed by defective administration”. This in turn is understood and perceived that many organizations require a form of hierarchy‚ and degrees of command and accountability to function efficiently and effectively. Fayol is also famous
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organisation as a whole than on the employers themselves. (Boland‚ 2012). By classical theorists in this essay we are going to base in one of the most significant representatives‚ Henri Fayol‚ who stated that there were five main elements of management: planning‚ organising‚ commanding‚ coordinating and controlling (Fayol‚ 1949). Thus‚ these functions are commonly known as the elements or processes that the classical theorists say that management is about. Another classical perspective useful in this
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these to each other and to the earlier classical approach. As Miner (1971‚ 1982) noted‚ most management textbooks are organized on the basis of the original classical management functions first introduced by Fayol (1949) and elaborated and extended by others such as Urwick (1952). The Fayol functions are planning‚ organizing‚ commanding‚ coordinating‚ and controlling
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to today’s organization although he did his study almost 100 years ago. Furthermore‚ Henri Fayol was a pioneer of management theory(Pryor & Taneja‚ 2010)‚ therefore a lot of people may follow his classical view. In addition‚ Fayol have devoted 30 years in leading a French mining company‚ which means he has 30 years experience of dealing with supervision and managing lower layer of staff(Fayol‚1949)‚ so his classical management theories are built upon his own experience and can still applied
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FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT Henri Fayol was the first person to identify elements or functions of management in his classic 1916 book Administration Industrielle et Generale. Fayol was the managing director of a large French coal-mining firm and based his book largely on his experiences as a practitioner of management. Fayol defined five functions‚ or elements of management: planning‚ organizing‚ commanding‚ coordinating‚ and controlling. Fayol argued that these functions were universal
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Knowledge gained through past experience can and should be used as a foundation for future success”. The management theories of Fayol‚ Mintzberg and Weber are still relevant and important to modern day managers‚ as they are a basis for
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four popular management contingency variables of organisational size‚ routineness of task technology‚ environmental uncertainty and individual differences are reflected in the work of the manager that was interviewed. Using classical theories of Fayol‚ Mintzberg and Katz along practical examples from the managers’ day-to-day routine‚ this essay sets out to explain how these theories and functions impact upon how the manager applies the situational approach to management using the contemporary and widely
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book‚ Mintzberg has stated the Mangement roles. According to Mintzberg‚ Interpersonal roles‚ Informational roles and Decisional roles are important to managers. Mintzberg detailly discuss about Interpersonal roles‚ which included Figure head‚ Leadership and Liaison. Mintzberg also provide example which can Indentify the activities of interpersonal roles. This text book is related to my reseach topic as it provide a lot of information on interpersonal roles. David Lamond‚ Henry Mintzberg vs Henri
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