Classical Management Thought
                         Henri Fayol (1841-1925)
                  One of the earliest people to write and lecture 
                 on management issues. Sometimes referred to as 
                       the first management thinker 
                    or the Father of Modern Management. 
                                  
                                                 dr hab. Jerzy Supernat
      Classical Management Thought
      Frenchman  Henri  Fayol  –  the  Father  of  Administrative 
      Management was a contemporary of American Frederick W. 
      Taylor – the Father of Scientific Management (1856-1915). H. 
      Fayol  initiated  a  theoretical  analysis  appropriate  to  all 
      organizations  and  attempted  towards  a  comprehensive 
      theory  of  management:  „Management  plays  a  very 
      important  part  in  the  government  of  undertakings;  of  all 
      undertak-ings,  large  or  small,  industrial,  commercial, 
      political,  religious  or  any  other”.  H.  Fayol  believed  that 
      principles  of  effective  management  could  be  defined  and 
      taught and that managerial organization is as valid an area 
      of management as workers organization. 
      H.  Fayol's  work  included  defining  of  a  body  of  principles, 
      which would enable a manager to buildup a formal structure 
      of  the  organization and to manage it in a rational way.  H. 
      Fayol  was  a  staunch  advocate  of  the  universality  of 
      management concepts and principles.  The  perception  and 
                                         
      analysis  of  management  as  a  separate  discipline  is  his 
                                                           dr hab. Jerzy Supernat
      original contribution to management thought. 
     Classical Management Thought
         Administrative management 
                           focuses on
           the functions and principles of 
                      management. 
                                  
                                                 dr hab. Jerzy Supernat
      Classical Management Thought
      H.  Fayol,  Administration  industrielle  et 
      générale,  Bulletin  de  la  Société  de 
      l’Industrie  Minérale,  N°  10,  5-164  ,  Paris 
      1916.
      H. Fayol, Industrial and General Administration, 
      trans. J.A. Coubrough, International Management 
      Institute, Geneva 1930.
      H.  Fayol,  General  and  Industrial  Management, 
      trans.  Constance  Storrs,  Sir  Isaac  Pitman  and     Henri Fayol, circa 
      Sons, London 1949.                                         1916
      H.  Fayol,  Administracja  przemysłowa  i  ogólna,
      przeł.  Józef  A.  Teslar,  Wydawnictwo  Instytutu 
      Nauko-wego Organizacji i Kierownictwa, Poznań 
      1947 (first edition came out in 1925).
                                      
                                                        dr hab. Jerzy Supernat
     Classical Management Thought
                       Published: Istanbul, Feb. 2005
                                  
                                                 dr hab. Jerzy Supernat