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Biography [edit]

Fayol was born in 1841 in a suburb of Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. His father, an engineer, was appointed superintendent of works to build the Galata Bridge, which bridged the Golden Horn.[1] The family returned to France in 1847, where Fayol graduated from the mining academy "École Nationale Supérieure des Mines" in Saint-Étienne in 1860.
The nineteen-year old engineer started at the mining company "Compagnie de Commentry-Fourchambeau-Decazeville" in Commentry. By 1900 the company was one of the largest producers of iron and steel in France and was regarded as a vital industry.[1] Fayol became managing director in 1888, when the mine company employed over 10,000 people, and held that position over 30 years until 1918.
Based largely on his own management experience, he developed his concept of administration. In 1916 he published these experience in the book "Administration Industrielle et Générale", at about the same time as Frederick Winslow Taylor published his Principles of Scientific Management.
Work [edit]

Fayol's work became more generally known with the 1949 publication of General and industrial administration,[2] the English translation[3] of the 1916 article "Administration industrielle et générale". In this works Fayol presented his theory of management, known as Fayolism. Before that Fayol had written several articles on mining engineering, starting in the 1870s, and some preliminary papers on administration.[4]
Mining engineering [edit]
Since the 1870s Fayol wrote a series of articles on mining subject, such as on the spontaneous heating of coal (1879), the formation of coal beds (1887), the Sedimentation of the Commentry, and on plant fossils (1890),
His first articles were published in the French Bulletin de la Societe de l'Industrie Minerale, and since early 1880s in the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, the proceedings of the French Academy of