Fayol vs Taylor

A is correct because Taylor’s techniques, such as time study and method study, sought to analyse work and identify efficient ways to perform it. The aim was to improve productivity, not simply to change an organisation’s name or decorate an office.

A is correct. Fayol formulated 14 administrative principles, including unity of command. Management principles are applied flexibly according to the situation, rather than as rigid rules; this question identifies Fayol through his set of administrative principles.

B is correct. Taylor’s scientific management replaced rule-of-thumb methods with systematic study to identify an efficient way of doing a job. This is the basis of the principle often called “science, not rule of thumb.”

Henri Fayol and F. W. Taylor were both major management thinkers. Taylor focused on scientific management and shop-floor efficiency, whereas Fayol gave broader principles of administrative management. Therefore, option B is incorrect, and option C reverses their contributions. Exam tip: associate Taylor with scientific management and Fayol with administrative management.

A is correct because Fayol is associated with administrative management and principles for managing an organisation, while Taylor is associated with scientific management and the systematic improvement of work. Time study is associated with Taylor, and the scalar chain is a Fayol principle, so option B reverses their contributions.

A is correct because Fayol contributed general administrative principles, whereas Taylor’s scientific management used systematic methods to improve work. Both contributed to management, but their main areas of emphasis differed.

Top management and general principles are linked with Fayol. Exam tip: choose Fayol when these keywords appear.

Shop floor and one best way are linked with Taylor’s scientific management. Exam tip: choose Taylor from task level clues.

Fayol’s contribution is famous as 14 managerial principles. Exam tip: connect a principles list with Fayol.

Taylor’s contribution is famous as scientific management techniques. Exam tip: remember Taylor when the word techniques appears.

Balance of authority and responsibility is linked with Fayol’s principles. Exam tip: choose Fayol from administrative principle clues.

Fatigue study comes under Taylor’s scientific management techniques. Exam tip: choose Taylor from fatigue and productivity clues.

This gives the simple and correct difference between both. Exam tip: remember administrative principles and scientific techniques separately.

The correct answer is A: Henri Fayol was French, whereas Frederick Winslow Taylor was American. Fayol developed an administrative or general theory of management while working in the French industrial context, and his fourteen principles address management functions and organisation-wide administration. Taylor worked in the United States and developed scientific management around the systematic study of tasks, standard methods, worker selection and training, and incentive-based remuneration. The question asks for national background, not for a comparison of the complete theories. Options B, C, and D either reverse the two thinkers or incorrectly assign the same country to both, so they conflict with the established historical identification used in school-level management studies.