Compare And Contrast Williams And Fayol

Register to read the introduction… Managers are required to consider threats from competitors and think of competitive strategy, where the ability to embrace changes and foster new ideas on product or service is crucial, to meet the competition. Besides that, the capability to structure the organization in order to adapt to varying customers and competitors is important as well. Another similarity between both functions is leading as both Williams and Fayol included leading in their management functions. For both of them, leading means motivation, inspiration or influence and effective communication. However, Williams think perspiration is an element of leading as well while Fayol stress on ability of dealing with employees’ behaviour …show more content…
The functions have been modified and updated to make them more applicable in today’s organizations. Making things happen, decision making, meeting competition, organizing, staffing, leading and communicating are all the management functions that are necessary for an organization to be successful in terms of achieving goals and being the market leaders.

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