Henri Fayol Quotes

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Like his contemporary, he is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern management method. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. July 1841 – 19. November 1925
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Famous Henri Fayol Quotes

“satisfying shareholders and employees; labor and management.”

Source: L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908, p. 911

“[Planning] means both to assess the future and make provision for it.”

Source: General and industrial management, 1919/1949, p. 43 cited in: George A. Steiner (1997) Strategic Planning. p. 346

Henri Fayol Quotes

“The manner in which the subordinates do their work has incontestably a great effect upon the ultimate result, but the operation of management has much greater effect.”

Source: The administrative theory in the state, 1923, p. 102 cited in: Göran Svensson, Greg Wood, (2006) "Sustainable components of leadership effectiveness in organizational performance", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 25 Iss: 6, pp.522 - 534

“ensuring that unity of action, discipline, anticipation, activity, order, etc., exist in all parts of the enterprise;”

L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908

“Are there principles of administration? Nobody doubts it. What do they consist of? That is what I propose to discuss today. The subjects of recruitment, organization and direction of personnel will form the subject of the second part of this study.”

Comment: The principles of administration Fayol presented in this publication (p. 912-916) were:
# Unity of command
# Hierarchical transmission of orders (chain-of-command)
# Separation of powers - authority, subordination, responsibility and control
# Centralization
# Order
# Discipline
# Planning
# Organization chart
# Meetings and reports
# Accounting
Comment: Wren, Boyd and Bedeian (2002) commented with the words: "This previously untranslated and unpublished 1908 presentation from Henri Fayol’s personal papers indicates the progress he had made in developing his theory of administration."
Source: L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908, p. 912

“coordination of all efforts towards the overall goal;”

L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908

“[In France] a minister has twenty assistants, where the Administrative Theory says that a manager at the head of a big undertaking should not have more than five or six.”

Henri Fayol cited in: Morgen Witzel (2001) Organization Behaviour, 1890-1940, Volume 1. p. 191

“ensuring good relations between the various departments and with the outside world;”

L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908

“recruiting, organizing and directing the workforce;”

L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908

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