Fayol’s Five Principles of Management

Dated back in 1984, Henri Fayol a French mining engineer developed and proposed fourteen principles for management and at the same time come up with five main elements of management. Planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding and controlling were Fayol’s version. As time goes by and generation changes, these five elements of management had been modified and reduced to four, which is plan, lead, organized and control. Fells (2000) claim that Fayol’s theory of management is appropriate and relevant for management nowadays. However, there are still other individual disagree with his theory and thought it is no longer relevant to the society nowadays. However, Foyal’s process of management idea had been the main basic structure of management, which creates clear and relevant set of guidelines that managers will be managing an organization by using the organization resources efficiently and effectively (Dianne 2008). Fayol’s five principles of management are still relevant for managers in this new century as it is the basic of management. The ideas could be modified enable it to suit the new generation or society but it should not be scrap off from management as it had been the guideline for managers and proven its effectiveness in assisting managers to developed perfect managing skills for many years. In this essay I will try to prove Fayol’s five elements of management is still relevant for managers in this new era because it had been a guideline, although been modified enable to suit the new society but it still relevant as it is the basic of management.

By comparison, Fayol’s five element of management was very similar to the modified version. There were three elements still remain in the new version of management, plannin...

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