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Henry Feyol

Henri Fayol's contribution to the theory of oublic administration is as follows :

• Henri Fayol, a successful executive of a mining of company in France, made significant contribution to the management concepts and is considered as the founder of "Management Process School".
• He considered management as a science which can be developed, studied and applied equally well to public and private affairs.
• He emphasised the university of management processes and made a distinction between management and public administration.
• He identified five elements of organization viz., planning, organization, command, coordination and control.
• Fayol derived fourteen principles of administration which are capable of adoption to various enterprises and settings. He emphasised the importance of training in administration.
• Although Fayol places great emphasis on formal organization, he is alive to the limitations of the hierarchy and formalism. Therefore, he suggested Gangplank - "level jumping" - in hierarchical organization.
• A comparison of contributors of Henri Fayol, a French Manager and F.W.Taylor, an American engineer is useful to understand the complementarity of their contributions and the differences in their approach and focus. Taylor focused mainly on the management principles to be directly applied to the field of production and Fayol mainly focused on the development of general theory of administration to be applied at the top management level.
• Fayol's theory of functionalism is criticised for its narrow focus, mechanical approach and neglect of complex factors affecting human behaviour in organizations.
• Fayol's framework of systematic analysis of administrative process stimulated subsequent writers on administration and management. His principles of administration, in variant form, are applied in the working of modern organizations.