Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett

by Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick

Overview

Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but placing greater stress on the need to develop a science of cooperation. According to Follett, what'she called her 'Law of the Situation' could be a means for bridging the gap between an ideal of scientific management and the unilateral position that it seemed to involve in practice. In effect she was proposing the same collaboration between leaders and subordinates that was usually to be found between leaders of the same rank.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415279857
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2003
Series:	The Making of Sociology Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	322
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick

Table of Contents

I. Constructive Conflict
II. The Giving of Orders
III. Business as an Integrative Unity
IV. Power
V. How must Business Management develop in order to possess the essentials of a Profession
VI. How must Business Management develop in order to become a Profession
VII. The Meaning of Responsibility in Business Management
VIII. The Influence of Employee Representation in a Remolding of the Accepted Type of Business Manager
IX. The Psychology of Control
X. The Psychology of Consent and Participation
XI. The Psychology of Conciliation and Arbitration
XII. Leader and Expert
XIII. Some Discrepancies in Leadership Theory and Practice
XIV. Individualism in a Planned Society
Appendix I: Bibliography
Appendix II: Notes on the English Papers