Henri Fayol is the Father of Engineering Management.
Henri Fayol may also be known as Father of Modern Management itself. But he initiated the discussion of management as a component of properly doing or administering engineering activity.
You can see the emphasis of Henri Fayol on Engineering Management or Industrial Management or Technology Management in his first sentence of the book "General and Industrial Management."
All activities to which industrial undertakings give rise can be divided into the following six groups-
1. Technical activities (production, manufacture, adaptation)
2. Commercial activities (buying, selling, exchange)
3. Financial activities (search for and optimum use of capital)
4. Security activities (protection of property and persons)
5. Accounting activities (planning, organization, command, statistics)
6. Managerial activities (planning, organization, command, co-ordination, control)
In an industrial undertaking, the six essential functions are closely interdependent. Production cannot exist without raw materials, sales outlets, capital and payment system based on accounts.
Management is not exclusive privilege of one person in an organization. It is an activity carried out in varying degrees by many people in the organization. Fayor indicated that even workman does some management activities.
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Class of Managerial Technical Commercial Financial Security Accounting
Employee
Workman 5% 85% 5% 5%
Foreman 15 60 5% 10 10
Superintendent 25 45 5 5 10 15
Head-of-Section 30 30 5 5 10 20
Head-Tech-dept 35 30 10 5 10 10
Manager - CEO 40 15 15 10 10 10
CEO - Several 50 10 10 10 10 10
Establishments
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The important point to note is the importance of the technical function. Even if one is the CEO of an engineering concern, his understanding and direction engineering activities is very important and every engineering manager has to be involved deeply in engineering activities early in his career.
Fayol gave a similar table for CEOs of one man technical firm to large technical company
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Size of Business Managerial Technical Commercial Financial Security Accounting
One man 15 40 20 10 5 10
Small firm 25 30 15 10 10 10
Medium size 30 25 15 10 10 10
Large firm 40 15 15 10 10 10
Very large firm 50 10 10 10 10 10
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References
Henri Fayol, General and Industrial Management, Sir Issac Pitman & Sons, 1949
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