... been paid by result e.g. piecerate. This is very different from Mintzberg who looked at several different businesses with different kinds of set-up. With two very different types of working environment, therefore two different types of employees, it would have been unlikely that management styles would have been exactly the same. Like all the management theorists, Henri Fayol believes that his theory is entirely correct, but is this necessarily true? Would Fayol's scientific view of management still be valid in today's working environment? His perspective leads us to believe it would. Henri Fayol was one of the first management theorists along with Max Weber and Frederick W Taylor. These three theorists belonged to the Classical School of Management whom saw management as a highly rational activity. All of them have a task focus; however they all have very different approaches. Henri Fayol lived from 1841 to 1925 and worked as a ...

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