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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Through the years, the need to control and coordinate groups requiring teamwork has had many different approaches. From the autocratic manner of the military to the brutish forcefulness of a coal mine ...