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Henry Fayol was a French engineer and director of mines. He was born in Istanbul in 1841 and later died in Paris in 1925 as he was known as one of the greatest founders of classical management. He defines management as to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control.
The military general and the factory founder were managers in this sense as they ordered and administered their human and physical assets. He was a French engineer and general manager of a French mining company. Comambault was near collapse when Fayol joined. Using his management skills, he took the mining organization and brought it to a great success. The nature of management, ambition, and the theories about administration was developed on the basis of Fayol's French mining organization experiences and his personal experiences and observations. Fayol's organizational skills and administrative science techniques helped seek out which set of principles were better and consisten...

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