Fayol's work became more generally known with the 1949 publication of "General and industrial administration", the English translation of the 1916 work "Administration industrielle et générale". In this work 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.
Mining engineering Starting in the 1870s, Fayol wrote a series of articles on mining subjects, 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 Société de l'Industrie minérale'', and beginning in the early 1880s in the
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, the proceedings of the
French Academy of Sciences.
Fayolism Fayol's work was one of the first comprehensive statements of a general theory of management. He proposed that there were six types of organisational activity, including management as one of these, five primary functions of management and fourteen principles of management.
Types of organisational activity Fayol divided the range of activities undertaken within an industrial undertaking into six types:- • technical activities • commercial activities • financial activities • security activities • accounting activities, and • managerial activities == Publications ==