PRESENTATION ON

HENRI FAYOL
BY GROUP B:

FLORA BISWAS 1310

MANVENDRA MISHRA 2310
SILVESTER TOPNO 2810
WEENA YANCEY MOMIN 3210
Henri Fayol
 PREVIEW

 Biography
 Contribution to the field of management
 Application of Fayol’s theory in
organizations
 Limitation of the theory
 

Born - 29 July1841
Birthplace - Istanbul,
Turkey.
Nationality - French
Occupation – French
mining engineer and a
management theorist
Considered as - Father of
Administrative
Management School
 Biography
 French mining engineer and a management
theorist
 Studied at mining school in Saint-Etienne
 Started as an engineer at a mining company
and became Director in 1888.
 Wrote a book in 1916 “Administration
Industrielle et generale”
CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF
MANAGEMENT

 Administrative Management Theory

 Principles of Management
 Viewed management as a profession that can
be trained and developed
 Emphasized the broad policy aspects of top
level managers ( top down approach)
 Offered universal managerial prescriptions
Cont……
 Six primary functions of management
 forecasting
 planning
 organizing
 commanding
 coordinating
 monitoring
Conti……
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT

 Division of work  Centralization.

 Authority.  Scalar chain
 Discipline  Order
 Unity of command.  Equity
 Unity of direction  Stability of tenure of
 Subordination of personnel.
individual interests to  Initiative
the general interest.  Esprit de corps.
 Remuneration.
 APPLICATIONS IN THE
ORGANISATIONS TODAY
 Acts as the guidelines for the organizations.
 Helps in job analysis
 Made the communication more open from the lower
to the top management level.
 Helps the managers to assign work in more efficient
way.
 Helps the employees of the organizations to work as
a team on the basis of “Esprit de corps”.
 Reduce employee turnover.
 Helps the organizations in planning, controlling,
organizing and leading.
Conti……
 Change and Organization.
 Decision-making.
 Skills can be used to improve the basic
effectiveness of a manager.
 Understand that management can be seen as a
variety of activities, which can be listed and
grouped
Limitations:

 Stressed a “one best way” way of organizing

and managing
 theory based on intuition and observation
rather than on empirical investigation
 today’s environment are more turbulent and
unpredictable.
 too general for today’s highly complex
organization
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