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Our group project is on Henri Fayol's "Administrative Management Theory". As a group member I took on a task of researching his theory.
Henri Fayol began his career as a junior Engineer in French Mining Company. His key work was "Administration Industrielle et Generale" which he published in 1916 ad later o pulished in Eglish I 1949. The administrative theory "emphasized management functions and attempted to generate broad administrative principles that would serve as guidelines for the rationalization of organizational activities" (Scott p. 36). Fayol played a main role in the turn-of-the-century Classical School of management theory. Fayol believed that techniques of effective management could be defined and taught and that managerial organization hold as much importance as management as workers organization. He was the first to identify functions of management. The five functions of managers, according to Fayol were plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control.......

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