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Henri Fayol
French mining engineer and executive, developer of "Fayolism"
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Henry fayol born
For the French singer, see Lily Fayol.
Henri Fayol (29 July 1841 – 19 November 1925) was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism.[2] He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously.
Like his contemporary Frederick Winslow Taylor, he is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern management methods.
Biography
Henri Fayol was born in 1841 amidst the great eruption of the industrial revolution in a suburb of Constantinople (now Istanbul).
His father, a military engineer, was appointed superintendent of works to build Galata Bridge, across the Golden Horn.[2] The family returned to France in 1847, where Fayol graduated from the mining academy "École Nationale Supérieure des Min