Assessment
Assessment 3 Topic: “Henri Fayal’s management theory is relevant today”
Management is a very challenging job in the organisations. It plays an important role in every organisation to achieve its goals and plans. It improves the relations between individuals, groups, departments and between levels of management. Better relations lead to better team work. Better team work brings success to the organisation.
To be a successful company, organisation management theory is important because it is the research of how to make all the people in the organization more productive. Theory to maximize labour productivity and learning how to manage people is a key strategy in Today organisation.
When it comes to organisational management, Management is still an area under discussion and criticised since many years before till today by many contributors and authors. Wren (2001,p. 475-487) described, “Management theory was founded by Henri Fayol who was mining engineer-turn to- managing director in nineteenth century”. He developed and published five functions and 14 principal of management through his 30 years managerial experience. His theory is widely acknowledged and applied by managers in organisations until today. Wren (2001) described, “The five functions of Fayol’s administrative theory for managers were plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control”. “The fourteen principles are: Division of work, Delegation of Authority, Discipline, Chain of commands, Congenial workplace, Interrelation between individual interests and common organizational goals, Compensation package, Centralization, Scalar chains, Order, Equity, Job Guarantee, Initiatives, Team-Spirit or Esprit de corps.” , according to Rodrigues, CA (2001, p.880-889)
To explore if Henri Fayol’s five administrative theory is still relevant to Today organisation, the research was done on supply chain management of CEVA Logistic in Singapore where I work for 2years as Customer Service Specialist for Local delivery
Management is a very challenging job in the organisations. It plays an important role in every organisation to achieve its goals and plans. It improves the relations between individuals, groups, departments and between levels of management. Better relations lead to better team work. Better team work brings success to the organisation.
To be a successful company, organisation management theory is important because it is the research of how to make all the people in the organization more productive. Theory to maximize labour productivity and learning how to manage people is a key strategy in Today organisation.
When it comes to organisational management, Management is still an area under discussion and criticised since many years before till today by many contributors and authors. Wren (2001,p. 475-487) described, “Management theory was founded by Henri Fayol who was mining engineer-turn to- managing director in nineteenth century”. He developed and published five functions and 14 principal of management through his 30 years managerial experience. His theory is widely acknowledged and applied by managers in organisations until today. Wren (2001) described, “The five functions of Fayol’s administrative theory for managers were plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control”. “The fourteen principles are: Division of work, Delegation of Authority, Discipline, Chain of commands, Congenial workplace, Interrelation between individual interests and common organizational goals, Compensation package, Centralization, Scalar chains, Order, Equity, Job Guarantee, Initiatives, Team-Spirit or Esprit de corps.” , according to Rodrigues, CA (2001, p.880-889)
To explore if Henri Fayol’s five administrative theory is still relevant to Today organisation, the research was done on supply chain management of CEVA Logistic in Singapore where I work for 2years as Customer Service Specialist for Local delivery
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