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Bill Gates and Henri Fayol


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Bill Gates and Henri Fayol
Examines this Microsoft founder's management style and how it fits in with the ideas of the French theorist.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) | 6 sources | 1999 United States


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"BILL GATES, A MODERN-DAY HENRI FAYOL?

If there can be called a "founder" of management theory, most academicians would vote for Henri Fayol, a Frenchman who laid down precepts for how organizations should work. Fayol saw the manager as the productivity key, and he suggested 14 principles that managers should follow. Bill Gates, who is the founder of Microsoft Corporation can be said to closely emulate the tenets put out by Fayol.

As Fayol saw it, organizing is the first step in turning a plan into a reality. Organizing has the goal of maximizing the results of the product life cycles, and businesses use several systems for achieving this. Primary models are: decentralization (in which there is a flattening or elimination of organization charts and putting decision-making responsibility ..."

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"Bill Gates and Henri Fayol" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Bill-Gates-and-Henri-Fayol/14412>




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