Pioneers of General Management: Henry Fayol

Author: Sun Guoqiang
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: A collection of essential thoughts from Western management masters. Henry Fayol, born in France in 1841, was a renowned management practitioner, management theorist, geologist, and statesman. Modern people generally know Fayol as a management theorist, but in fact, he was also a management practitioner. From the time he entered a company, Fayol participated in the management group of the enterprise. Later, he served as the highest leader in large companies and engaged in management-related surveys and mathematical work in various institutions in France. Fayol believed that management is the implementation of planning, organizing, commanding, coordinating, and controlling. In the history of the development of management thought, Fayol was one of the founders of classical management theory, alongside Taylor.