Henri Fayol’s management theory – the foundation of administrative management – offers a timeless framework of 14 principles that continue to shape business leadership today. This foundational model ...

In the early 1900s, Henri Fayol developed a modern management theory that business leaders still use today. Fayol's theory was honed while he worked his way up the ladder to become the director of a ...

The evolution of industries and technology over the past century has been momentous. We could never have imagined the way our lives would look now back in the early 1900s. However, the ideas and ...

Many books have been written about management theory. There are books on scientific management, administrative management, bureaucratic management and classical management, to name a few theories.

Whether they are motivating employees, making decisions, allocating resources or negotiating deals, managers are vital for business. Managers have been an integral factor for business success since ...

While American manufacturing processes were being revolutionised by Frederick Winslow Taylor (see article), France's were being overturned by Fayolism, a system devised by an engineer, Henri Fayol ...

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer who published General and Industrial Management, one of the first theories of management, in 1916. His work identified and explained 14 principles of ...