Saturday, September 12, 2015

Henri Fayol - Biography and Contribution

Date of Birth  29 July 1841

Henri Fayol was born in 1841 of a family of businessmen. At the age of 19, he graduated as a mining engineer. He got job as engineer in the Commentry groups of pits of the Commentry-Fourechambault Company in 1860. He remained with this company throughout his long and distinguished business career. He became its Managing Director and retired from the position in 1918.


His first address on administration was delivered on 23 June 1900.

He gave a second lecture on administration in 1908 in the Silver Jubilee Congress of the Societe de l'Industrie Minerale.

His famous work "Admininistration Industrielle et generale" was published in a bulletin in 1916.

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