Administrative Management

The field of scientific management developed quickly in the United States between 1895 and 1920 and focused on improving the efficiency of manufacturing facilities and their workers. At about the same time, equally important ideas about bureaucratic and administrative management were developing in Europe. Henri Fayol, an experienced French CEO, published his ideas about how and what managers should do in their jobs (administrative management) in General and Indus-trial Management in 1916.
Though his work was not translated and widely recognized in the United States until 1949, Frenchman Henri Fayol (1841-1925) was as important a contributor to the field of management as Taylor. Like Taylor and the Gilbreths, Fayol’s work experience significantly shaped his thoughts and ideas about management. But, whereas Taylor’s ideas changed companies from the shop floor up, Fayol’s ideas were shaped by his experience as a managing director (CEO) and generally changed companies from the board of directors down.
Fayol is best known for developing five functions of managers and 14 principles of management, as well as for his belief that management can and should be taught to others. Fayol argued that managers need to perform five managerial functions if they are to be successful: planning, organizing, coordinating, commanding, and controlling.
Administrative management is an important part of management history.

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Scientific management theory by Henry Gantt