1st Edition

Dynamic Administration The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett

By Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick Copyright 2003

    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.

    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

    Biography

    Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick