Mary Parker Follett, prophet of management : a celebration of writings from the 1920s / edited by Pauline Graham ; preface by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ; introduction by Peter F. Drucker.

Contributor(s): Graham, Pauline | Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933 .

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BookSeries: Harvard Business School Press classics.Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, 1995Description: xix, 309 p. : port. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0875845630 .Subject(s): Management

| Psychology, Industrial

DDC classification: 658

Contents:

Introduction: Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of management / Peter F. Drucker -- Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933): A pioneering life / Pauline Graham -- Part One: The psychological foundations of business organization -- Relating: The circular response -- Constructive conflict -- Commentary Follet: Constructive conflict / John Child -- Power -- The giving of orders -- The basis of authority -- Commentary Mary Parker Follett's view on power, the giving of orders and authority: an alternative to hierarchy or a Utopian Ideology? / Nitin Nohria -- The essentials of leadership -- Commentary Thoughts on "The essentials of leadership" / Warren Bennis -- Co-ordination -- Commentary Some fresh air for management? / Henry Mintzberg -- Commentary Reflections on design and the third way / Angela Dumas -- The process of control -- Part Two: The individual, the group and society -- The individual in the group -- Commentary The individual in the group / Tokihiko Enomoto -- The individual in society -- Part Three: Business - the way ahead -- Business in society -- Commentary Most quoted - Least heeded: The five senses of Follet / Sir Peter Parker.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This selection of Follett's writings & lectures, delivered between 1925 & 1933, addresses critical management topics that are relevant for managers today: conflict, power, authority, leadership, control, the role of the individual in the group, & the place of business in society. Commentaries by Warren Bennis, John Child, Angela Dumas, Tokihiko Enomoto, Henry Mintzberg, Nitin Nohria, & Sir Peter Parker are featured. The book also includes a preface by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an introduction by Peter Drucker, & an epilogue by Paul Lawrence. Their reflections underscore the contemporary significance of Follett's ideas & testify to the eloquence & truth of her observations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library Journal Review

This book aims to return Follett to her rightful place in the pantheon of classic business writers. A preface by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and an introduction by Peter Drucker attest to the fact that she merits such attention. The book contains extracts of Follett's writings on specific subjects: conflict, authority, power, and the place of the individual in society and the group. Each extract is followed by commentaries from today's foremost management scholars that underscore the contemporary significance of her ideas. Follett espoused the theory that business was a social institution and advocated an almost complete change of vocabulary in the business world, eliminating terms like grievance and complaints since such words led to automatic negative reactions. Since Follett wrote about the human side of management, there have been several "discoveries" that promote her essential philosophy: the participative management movement of the Fifties and Sixties, the quality-of-work movement of the Seventies, and now the network movementeach of these moving organizations toward a new, more effective, and humane form of management. This extraordinary book belongs in all academic management libraries and any others aspiring to have comprehensive management collections.Mary Chatfield, Angelo State Univ., San Angelo, Tex. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

What's old becomes new again, a remarkable occurrence in the relatively young field of management. To witness the recycling of ideas from such neglected visionaries as Bostonian Mary Parker Follett, one has only to look at the resurgency of total quality management--and its real roots. Editor Graham selects 11 of Follett's lecture essays delivered or published between 1925 and 1933 that prove without a doubt that the concepts of "empowerment" and "horizontal management" began with her. Contemporary gurus of business from Peter Drucker to Rosabeth Moss Kantor add flourishes and today's meanings to Follett's philosophies. Yet the experts admit that this turn-of-the-century social worker in her insistence on mutual problem solving and business' debts to society, among other ideas, was way ahead of us all. ~--Barbara Jacobs