...Henri Fayol (Istanbul, 29 July 1841 – Paris, 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining official, creator and chief of mines who created general hypothesis of business organization that is frequently called Fayolism. He and his associates built up this hypothesis freely of logical administration however generally contemporaneously. Fayol was conceived in 1841 in a suburb of Istanbul. His dad (an architect) was in the military at the time and was selected administrator of attempts to manufacture Galata Bridge, which spanned the Golden Horn. The family come back to France in 1847, where Fayol moved on from the mining institute "École Nationale Supérieure des Mines" in Saint-Étienne in 1860. In 1860 at nineteen years old Fayol began...
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...and activities of an organisation, and the modern approach to management which emphasized organisational effectiveness through focus on strategic issues. Fayol had the classical approach to management while Mintzberg had the modern approach. Mintzberg (2005) said the four words; planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling introduced by Fayol only indicate vague objectives that managers have when they work. Throughout this essay I am going to explore the claim that Fayol’s classic analysis of the management function has been made redundant by the more recent views of Mintzberg through comparing and contrasting both theorists’ conceptions of what a manager actually does. Henri Fayol Henri Fayol was a French industrialist who worked as a young mining engineer. He spent his life working his way up in the mine until he became the managing director. Under Fayol the business thrived and grew despite it nearly being bankrupt when he took over. Fayol, who undertook the classical approach to management meant he was mostly concerned with issues such as the establishment of a hierarchy of authority within a business, the span of control and also division of work. Fayol and Frederick Taylor were the main founders of the classical approach. It is from this approach that other theorists founded their ideas on. From Fayol, theorists such as Mintzberg developed and expanded their...
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...Henry Fayol, a French industrialist, developed the theory of management. According to him, managerial excellence is a technical ability and can be acquired. He developed theories and principles of management which are universally accepted and make him universalistic. He was pioneer of the formal education in management. Fayol's principles of management meet the requirements of modern management. Henry Fayol, offered fourteen principles of management for the first time in 1916. During the period of 1920-40 in the U.S. many authors did hard work in developing and testing various principles of management. Today, there is a very lengthy list of management principles and it is not possible to give an exhaustive lot of these management principles. Here, we are giving some important principles of management. Henry Fayol's Principle of Management Followings are the 14 principles of management developed by the Henry Fayol: 1. Division of Work: According to Henry Fayol under division of work, "The worker always on the same post, the manager always concerned with the same matters, acquire an ability, sureness and accuracy which increases their output. In other words, division of work means specialization. According to this principle, a person is not capable of doing all types of work. Each job and work should be assigned to the specialist of his job. Division of work promotes efficiency because it permits an organizational member to work in a limited area reducing the scope of his...
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...Henry Amm Fayol or Mintzberg – Who is right? Date: 11/12/2011 Student Number: 110369257 Version 1.0 The task: Henri Fayol presented his analysis of the management function in 1916 and it has largely been superseded by the more descriptive approaches of what managers actually do, such that favored by Henry Mintzberg. However, it could be argued that the image portrayed by Fayol is superior to that of Mintzberg, and the latter’s description is of rather ineffective management! Who do you think is right? Fayol or Mintzberg – Who is right? By Henry Amm Introduction With his work General and Industrial Management (1949, in French 1916) Henri Fayol was a pioneer on the field of management theory. (Pryor & Taneja, 2010) Many more were to follow, some supporting Fayol’s thoughts and some, i.e. Henry Mintzberg in The Nature of Managerial Work (1973) saying that Fayol’s views are not holding true today. This essay will take a closer look at strengths and weaknesses of both Fayol and Mintzberg and conclude that Fayol’s work still is not only relevant to our contemporary understanding of management but also superior to Mintzberg in terms of its conceptualization and applicability to modern organizations. Description of Fayol’s work According to Fayol (1949) all industrial organisations consist of six different groups of activities: technical, commercial, financial, security, accounting and management. As he was a manager himself, or in other words an administrator, he...
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...Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer and director of mines who had developed a general theory of business administration. He was one of the most influential contributors to modern theories of management. He also identified 5 functions and 14 general principles of management in the early 19th century. These functions and principles were based on his experience and observations and were made for general administration purposes. While today’s economy may be more service oriented, one would feel the management functions set down by Fayol are still very relevant. Many of these are considered to be common sense and constitutional to sound management. These functions are: * Planning * Organising * Directing * Controlling and * Coordinating Planning is basically deciding in advance what to do and how to do it. Planning bridges the gap between where one is and where he/she wants to be. It is the primary function and is present on all levels of management. Organising is a process that commences the implementation of the plans that are set down by clarifying working and reporting relationships and effectively deploying resources towards the attainment of organizational goals. Directing involves leading and motivating employees to perform tasks assigned to them. Motivation and leadership are essential to direction. Leadership is influencing others to do what is asked of them and motivating is getting people to want to do it. Controlling is the function...
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...The Principles of Management Management principles are statements of fundamental truth. These principles serve as guidelines for decisions and actions of managers. They are derived through observation and analysis of events which managers have to face in practice. Fayol developed 14 Principles of management 1. Division of Work - The specialization of the workforce according to the skills of a person , creating specific personal and professional development within the labour force and therefore increasing productivity; leads to specialization which increases the efficiency of labour. By separating a small part of work, the workers speed and accuracy in its performance increases. This principle is applicable to both technical as well as managerial work. 2. Authority and Responsibility- The issue of commands followed by responsibility for their consequences. Authority means the right of a superior to give order to his subordinates; responsibility means obligation for performance. This principle suggests that there must be parity between authority and responsibility.. They are co-existent and go together, and are two sides of the same coin. 3. Discipline- Discipline refers to obedience, proper conduct in relation to others, respect of authority, etc. It is essential for the smooth functioning of all organizations. 4. Unity of Command - This principle states that every subordinate should receive orders and be accountable to one and only one superior. If an employee receives...
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...BUS1001 Essay – FAQ’s Q Will a reading list be provided or would you recommend working from the texts recommended in the 'Module Details' document? A There is no separate reading list provided. The recommended reading plus any other sources on what is management should help. Also, there’s short readings about the various theorists on Blackboard and Mintzberg’s article itself. There are also two articles about Fayol and Mintzberg on Blackboard which should be helpful. ------------------------------------------------- Q Given the essay title, would you recommend that I only refer to Fayol and Mintzberg in the essay? Or would you recommend that I also consider other theorists such as Handy? A The question explicitly refers to Fayol & Mintzberg’s views, but you may include any other theorists/researchers whose work supports your discussion/argument. ------------------------------------------------- Q Do we need to put page number on in text citation for and should we use ibid for any repetition? A Essays should be referenced using the Harvard system - check this for details on how to reference in the text - but basically you do not use ibid. Also, you only need to use page numbers when using a direct quote, but sometimes if you are referring to a specific argument which someone has put forward, you would also give the page numbers for this. ------------------------------------------------- Q Does the 2000 words include the reference list? A The...
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...Newcastle University Business School BUS1001 Introduction to Management & Organisations Essay for Semester 1, 2014/15 This essay counts as 20% of the overall assessment of this module. Write an essay of approximately 2000 words on the following: Critically discuss the extent to which Fayol’s classic analysis of the management function has largely been made redundant by the more recent empirical studies of what managers actually do, such as that favoured by Mintzberg. When writing your essay, you may wish to consider the following: * The different perspectives on management taken by Fayol and Mintzberg; * The different approaches to the study of management taken by Fayol and Mintzberg; * Your essay should be analytical and discursive, not simply a description and comparison of Fayol’s and Mintzberg’s work; * Be wary of internet sources – anyone can put anything on the internet so it doesn’t mean it is right; such sources, especially student essays, often have serious flaws! Essays should be word-processed, draw upon established literature on the subject area, and be referenced appropriately One copy should be posted in the assignment boxes on the 2nd Floor of the Armstrong Building by 4pm on Monday 17th November. Please note that assessed work is not returned and feedback is provided via the Module Feedback Sheet. You are therefore advised to keep a copy of the assignment for your own use. Marks and feedback on your essay will be provided at the start...
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...Henri Fayol: Contributions to the classical stream of Management Theory Present management practices and theories have evolved from classical management theory created by organisation pioneers, and one such influential pioneer was Henri Fayol. Henri began his career as an engineer in a large French mine and eventually succeeded to become the director, here he realised the lack of resources available to managers for developing management practices. Fayol’s did not believe in the old ideas of an individual born to rule, he believed that an employee needs to be motivated and among many other things, money is an important variable in motivation. He also said that managers should keep the morale of his employees high and keep them motivated so they can perform at their best. Fayol believed that by focusing on management practises he would minimise misunderstanding and increase efficiency in organisations and started synthesising his 14 principles of management, which are considered as the foundation and essential references for present management practices and theories. Fayol’s principles of management are still widely used in organisations by management to perform day to day tasks and other functions. His 14 principals acknowledged the importance of management hierarchy and key management process in any organisation. These principles are as follows (Study mode, 2013): 1) Specialisation of labour. Specialising encourages continuous improvement in skills and the development...
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...Division of Work: This principle of Fayol tells us that as far as possible the whole work should be divided into different parts and each individual should be assigned only one part of the work according to his ability and taste rather than giving the whole work to one person. When a particular individual performs the same job repeatedly, he will become an expert in doing that particular part of the whole job. Consequently, the benefits of specialisation will become available. For example, a furniture manufacturer gets an order for manufacturing 100 lecture stands. He has five workers who will do the job. There are two ways to complete this order. First, every worker should be asked to complete 20 lecture stands. The second method can be distributing different parts of the lecture stand-legs, top board, centre support, assembling and polishing-to all the five workers in a manner that only one worker does the same job for all the 100 lecture stands. Here, Fayol’s indication is to the second way to do this job and not the former one. The principle of division of labour applies not only to the workers but also equally to the managers. For example, if a manager is tuned to work on the same kind of activities for a long period of time, he will certainly be an expert in his particular job. Consequently, more and beneficial decisions can be taken in a comparatively less time by him. Positive Effect advantages of specialisation are obtained, such as increase in the quality of work...
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...Assignment Q1) Describe how Henri Fayol explained the management function? ANS.1) Management is the achievement of organizational goals through the planning, organizing, delegating, commanding, coordinating and controlling functions. Management is an ongoing activity, entailing goal attainment and knowing how to carry out management’s major functions. These functions are crucial to effective management. Henri Fayol placed management center stage and secondly he pondered the question of how best a company could be organized. The functions are explained as follows: 1. PLANNING: drawing up plans of actions that combine unity, continuity, flexibility and precision given the organization's resources, type and significance of work and future trends. Creating a plan of action is the most difficult of the five tasks and requires the active participation of the entire organization. Planning must be coordinated on different levels and with different time horizons. 2. ORGANISING: providing capital, personnel and raw materials for the day-to-day running of the business, and building a structure to match the work. Organizational structure depends entirely on the number of employees. An increase in the number of functions expands the organization horizontally and promotes additional layers of supervision. DELEGATING: delegation is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities...
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...Henri Mintzberg considers the image of management which was developed from the work of Henry Fayol as one of folklore rather than fact. However, it could be argued that the image portrayed by Fayol is superior to that of Mintzberg, and the latter’s description is of rather ineffective management! Who do think is right? Over 50 years ago, English-speaking managers were directly introduced to Henry Fayol’s theory in management. His treatise, General and Industrial Management (1949), has had a great effect on managers and the practice of management around the world. However, 24 years after the English translation of Fayol, Henri Mintzberg in the Nature of Managerial Work (1973) developed another theory and stated that Fayol’s work was just “folklores”. This essay is to prove that work of Fayol and Mintzberg both have validity and they can be reconciled to some extent. It also claims that Fayol’s theory has been proved to be more useful in the practice of management and can not be called “folklores” as stated by Mintzberg. In the book General and Industrial Management (1949), Fayol described management as a function and to manage was to plan, organise, coordinate, command, and control. To plan was to forecast what might happen in the future and determine a chain of actions to be taken by the whole organisation. To organise was to build up a dual structure of the undertakings, allocate the materials and human and lay out the lines of authorities and responsibility. To command...
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...Administrative Principles The fourth major theory of management thought is called administrative principles. This is the third and final subset of the classical perspective. Henri Fayol, a French mining engineer was a major contributor to this theory of being “focused on the total organization” (Daft & Marcic, 2015). In a scholarly article, called Henri Fayol's Centre for Administrative Studies, it talks about Fayol’s belief in management being a part of every aspect in your life, from the home to work and even a part of government (Breeze, 1995). Some of the principles of management introduced by Fayol include the unity of command, division of work, unity of direction, and the scalar chain (Daft & Marcic, 2015). These principles have been...
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...that people should not underestimate themselves for human beings are adaptable and resilient. When you think about it, management has come a long way since the ancient era. From the time of Aristotle, who had laid the foundation for many management concepts, to medieval European guilds that functioned as modern-day quality control to ensure fine craftsmanship- the act of planning, organizing, and motivating resources was modified and adapted into what we know as management today. With the help of many modern management contributors like Frederick Winslow Taylor (founded Taylorism) whose theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes work flows. Taylor’s research is still heavily revered to this day. Another important figure is Henri Fayol, the father of the school of Systematic Management, who introduced to the world his 14 basic principles of management which is one of the earliest theories of management...
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...is more useful. Whilst both theories have many similarities, when compared to Fayol's somewhat vague management functions, Mintzberg's roles of management provide a much more specific and practical outline of the tasks which successful managers must carry out. Indeed many of Mintzberg's roles are nothing more than the tasks that must be performed in order to fulfil Fayol's functions of management. As a result Mintzberg's theory is more useful as it better explains what managers must actually do in the real world- the most important aspect of management. Henri Fayol (1841-1925) was a prominent French industrialist. Based on his extensive personal experience in management, he proposed that there were five basic functions which management performs in his French treatise "Administration Industrielle et Générale (1916)" which in 1949 was translated into English as "General and Industrial Management". According to Fayol, a manager's work comprised of a constant cycle of the following five functions- planning, organising, commanding, coordinating and controlling. Planning requires the manager to predict future events, determine future goals and develop a course of action which would allow the organisation to achieve these goals. Organising involves the manager arranging tasks and assigning people to complete them. Coordinating involves the manager synchronising and harmonising...
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