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In reading through Management Basics for Information Professionals by Evans and Ward, one of the theories of management that stood out to me was the “administrative approach” (2007). Henry Fayol was one of the main proponents of this approach, though there were many others as well. Fayol “divided organizational activities into five major groups” and also identified 14 principles of management and believed that “management is a skill one can learn, rather than a talent received at birth” (Evans & Ward, 2007). In the context of my personal experience I found that it might be interesting to compare my experiences as a student employee in the UC Berkeley library to some of the more applicable aspects of Fayol's principles of management. I worked in the Gardener Main Stacks located in the Doe Library of UC Berkeley for nearly three years and in that time I eventually was one of a group of student supervisors, so I have some experience being managed and as manager (though in a somewhat limited scope). In looking through Fayol's 14 principles, some apply more than others to the specific environment of the library that I worked in, and I will discuss some of the principles that stood out to me in examining my experiences at the library at UC Berkeley. I found that some principles pointed out some of the problems that I faced while I worked there as well as some of the things that worked well. On the other hand, some of Fayol's principles may apply in some ways, but in other ways may be outdated at this point.
At first, division of labor stood out to me as something that we practiced at the library, but in further reading the description of this principle, it seems apparent that we only did this to a certain extent. Evans & Ward note tha...
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...mpany, the goals and expectations often have to do with money. While this is a motivating factor for some, it is important for management theories to remember that some organizations do not have this as an incentive. In the library environment, keeping workers happy and productive has much more to do with goal setting and encouragement.
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Over 50 years ago, English-speaking managers were directly introduced to Henry Fayol’s theory in management. His treatise, General and Industrial Management (1949), has had a great effect on managers and the practice of management around the world. However, 24 years after the English translation of Fayol, Henri Mintzberg in the Nature of Managerial Work (1973) developed another theory and stated that Fayol’s work was just “folklores”.
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Henry Fayol is a scholar of French national and was born in 1841. The scholar Fayol was born at the cusp of French’s industrial revolution. Fayol mainly developed theories on management and organization of labor. Fayol developed the theory of management out of the experiences of French economy in the early years of the 19th century. During this period, France was underdeveloped compared to countries like Britain and Prussia. During this period the unification of Germany further exposed the underdevelopment of France and made it more economically insecure. Fayol is believed to be the founding father of the administration school and the first to describe management as a top down process based on planning and the organization of people (Thomson 2004).
Management plays a significant role in how business operates. The diversity of approaches to the theoretical and practical background of management has come up with several versions of what is meant by such key words as management and organization. The academia views expressed in relation to management theories take a different role than that prescribed to managers. There has not been any concrete definition of management even though the classic definition of Henri fayol still remains in contention to be the preferred choice after eighty years. In the context of what is required I would like to elaborate on the following journals.