While American manufacturing processes were being revolutionised by Frederick Winslow Taylor (see article), France's were being overturned by Fayolism, a system devised by an engineer, Henri Fayol ...

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer who published General and Industrial Management, one of the first theories of management, in 1916. His work identified and explained 14 principles of ...

In "Mintzberg on Management," management theorist Henry Mintzberg expresses surprise at the dearth of research examining the role of managers, despite the fascination Americans seem to have with them.