French mining engineer and executive, developer a general theory of business administration Fayolism (1841-1925)
He pulled management theory out of the mineshaft. A French mining engineer who rose to executive, then wrote the blueprints for how organizations actually run — and made "administration" a discipline you could teach.
Henri Fayol was born on 29 July 1841 and spent his career in French mining, working his way from engineer to director of mines. While Frederick Winslow Taylor was developing scientific management across the Atlantic, Fayol and his colleagues independently built what became known as Fayolism — a general theory of business administration drawn from the operational realities they'd lived. He published his framework and shifted management from intuition to method, giving structure to how organizations coordinate, command, and control. Fayol died on 19 November 1925, widely acknowledged as a founde…
Sourced, dated quotes from Henri Fayol
There is no one doctrine of administration for business and another for affairs of state; administrative doctrine is universal.
To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control. To foresee and plan means examining the future and drawing up the plan of action.
According to the dictionary, to administer is to govern, or to manage a public or private business.
ensuring that unity of action, discipline, anticipation, activity, order, etc., exist in all parts of the enterprise
The technical and commercial functions of a business are clearly defined, but the same cannot be said of the administrative function.
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