Henri Fayol as strategist: a nineteenth century corporate turnaround

Wren, Daniel A.

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“…Whenever authority is exercised, responsibility arises. So there needs to be a proper balance between authority and responsibility (Fayol, 1949;Pryor & Taneja, 2010;Wren, 1995Wren, , 2001.…”

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Private Schooling and Fayol's Principles of Management: A Case from Nepal

Poudyal

2013

Journal of Education and Research

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Henri Fayol is popularly known as the founder of administrative management for his contribution to the field of management. Although his principles of management are termed as classical management theory, the principles are still applicable in the field of management. In this paper I explore the issues of management and ownership in two private schools in Nepal using Fayol's principles of management.The data were collected from two private schools using a case study approach. I conducted semi-structured interviews with teachers, administrators and principals of two private schools. In the case study schools, the owners were also working in the capacity of principal of the school and hence the term owner/ principal has been used in this paper. The owners/principals were taken as the participants to represent the voice of the employers while the teachers were taken to represent the voice of the employees. Similarly, the administrators in this study represent the voices of both the employer and the employees of the school.This study suggests that when management and ownership are not separated, there is a concentration of power. The power concentration in individual or group of owners gives rise to a number of management related issues such as unequal distribution of authority and responsibility, role ambiguity, negative motivation and conflict of interest. Fayol's principles of authority and responsibility, initiative, subordination of individual interest to group interest, stability of tenure of personnel and spirit of cooperation have been used in this paper to explain several issues of management and ownership that emerged from the case study.

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Private Schooling and Fayol's Principles of Management: A Case from Nepal

Poudyal

2013

Journal of Education and Research

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“…Todavia, alguns poucos autores se ocuparam desse importante teórico e desenvolveram pesquisas que permitiram divulgar alguns de seus trabalhos praticamente inéditos, realçando a contemporaneidade de suas ideias. Dentre eles, encontram-se Breeze (1980;1981;1985;, Reid (1986;1988;, Wren (1995;2001) e Wren, Bedeian e Breeze (2002. Mais recentemente, foram publicados os estudos de Peaucelle (2003a) e Parker e Ritson (2005a;2005b).…”

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“…Assim, com referência ao discurso . • p. 204-227 • ISSN 1678 pronunciado em 1908, Breeze (1980) Wren (1995Wren ( , 2001. Ou seja, nesse período, o texto inédito circulou apenas entre os membros do restrito grupo dos novos fayolistas.…”

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“…• p. 204-227 • ISSN 1678 para o mercado, para a distribuição dos produtos. Wren (2001) lembra que Fayol foi um crítico da prática, comum em seu tempo, de deixar a área de vendas dirigir a produção. Isso porque, quando uma grande quantidade de carvão de alta qualidade era vendida, as minas tinham que escavar produtos de baixa e de alta qualidade, uma vez que esses diferentes produtos não podiam ser separados no processo de produção, gerando grandes estoques dos produtos que eram mais difíceis de comercializar.…”

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Publicações póstumas de Henri Fayol: revisitando sua teoria administrativa

Souza

Aguiar

2011

RAM, Rev. Adm. Mackenzie

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O engenheiro francês Henri Fayol (1841-1925) é usualmente apresentado aos estudantes de Administração como o Pai da Escola Clássica de Administração, o que demonstra uma representação limitada da amplitude de sua contribuição para a evolução do pensamento administrativo. Além disso, é frequentemente associado ao seu contemporâneo, o teórico norte-americano Frederick Taylor, sendo aos dois atribuída a defesa de um modelo autoritário de administração. Entretanto, recentemente, pesquisadores descobriram, através do exame de documentos raros e inéditos, um desconhecido retrato desse pioneiro. Este trabalho resulta de uma investigação que buscou levantar fontes de informação bibliográfica disponíveis, publicadas ou não, incluindo resultados de trabalhos de pesquisadores da França, dos Estados Unidos, do Canadá, da Austrália e do Japão. Esses pesquisadores compõem um reduzido grupo de estudiosos, aqui denominados "novos fayolistas" porque retomam, depois de anos de quase amnésia no meio acadêmico, o interesse pelas contribuições de Henri Fayol. Tais estudos revelam conceitos desenvolvidos por Fayol que antecipam aspectos de teorias e práticas da Administração que, somente mais tarde, seriam desenvolvidas, como a Escola de Relações Humanas, a Teoria Contingencial e o Planejamento Estratégico. Ao apresentar as recentes pesquisas sobre o homem e o teórico Henri Fayol, este estudo permite, aos docentes e estudantes de língua portuguesa, acesso a escritos e palestras de sua autoria que, até então, permaneciam desconhecidos.

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“…But recently, a number of scholars have extensively studied Fayol (Breeze and Bedeian ; Wren, , , , ; Reid , ; Sasaki, ; Peaucelle, , ; Wren, Bedeian and Breeze, ); the principles of management have been reappraised in light of a detailed account of his career as a manager (Peaucelle and Guthrie, ); and the interpretation of his theory has been enriched in several ways. First, many authors acknowledge both the superficial understanding of Fayol and the enduring value of his principles (Chambers ; Carrol and Gillen ; Fells, ; Cohen, ; Lamond ; Parker and Ritson, ; Pryor and Taneja, ).…”

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A century old and still visionary: Fayol's innovative theory of management

Hatchuel

Segrestin

2018

European Management Review

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Based on historical data and a seminal text never translated into English, we present an original interpretation of Henri Fayol's (1841Fayol's ( -1925 administrative theory. This interpretation, which is consistent with the comments that Fayol later presented about his 'General and industrial administration' treatise, brings out his pioneering contribution to management studies. Fayol made the 'unknown' introduced by science into industry the central tenet of modern administration. He foreshadowed major aspects of today's innovation management. More fundamentally, Fayol laid new foundations for the field of management sciences. He drew from the political and philosophical works of the Enlightenment to develop a series of original concepts (in French: prévoyance, perfectionnement, programme, inconnu, corps social) that were difficult to interpret and to translate. We maintain that Fayol's administrative science is a theory of a 'creative/political' rationality that still, today, offers better theoretical and explanatory support for management science than economic and bureaucratic theory.

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Henri Fayol as strategist: a nineteenth century corporate turnaround

Cited by 22 publications

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Private Schooling and Fayol's Principles of Management: A Case from Nepal

Private Schooling and Fayol's Principles of Management: A Case from Nepal

Publicações póstumas de Henri Fayol: revisitando sua teoria administrativa

A century old and still visionary: Fayol's innovative theory of management

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