ABSTRACT
Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer who developed, independent of the American scientific management movement, a general theory of business administration. His most notable work, Administration industrielle et générale (General and Industrial Management) (1925), is an attempt to classify and set out the duties and functions of management. Unlike F.W.Taylor and his followers in scientific management, Fayol concentrated on the duties of senior managers rather than on managing individual processes. His ideas are at once more abstract and more flexible than those of Taylor, and while he has his modern critics, his approach to management continues to have appeal.
