![]() ![]() The next five chapters are the five responsibilities of management: Planning, Organizing, Coordinating, Commanding and Controlling. After this Fayol introduces the five responsibilities of management. ![]() The last function is the management function, which is the only one that usually doesn't have it's own department but is interwoven in the other departments. The next chapter defines the six standard functions of an organization and their definition. The first chapter doesn't and it is an introduction chapter that defines several schools of management after which it explains the re-organization of the book. The book consists of 9 chapters of which 8 come from Fayol's original book. For example, I wouldn't expect a book written in 1916 talk about MIS systems. Unfortunately, the small additions by Irwin Gray annoyed the hell out of me as the sentences he added were mostly pretty obvious and didn't improve the text. ![]() This translation of Fayol's original work by Irwin Gray is a re-ordering and slight editing of the original. It is astounding and also very sad that so little has changed. ![]() It is amazing how much of Fayol's things you can see in today's organization, especially considering the book is nearly 100 years old. Henri Fayol's General and Industrial Management is one of the foundation works on modern management. ![]()
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