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Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett was an American social thinker, management consultant, social worker, political scientist, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior, management, leadership, democracy, and conflict resolution. She has been called the "Mother of Modern Management". Instead of emphasizing industrial and mechanical components, she advocated for wha…
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business · American management consultant, social worker and philosopher · writer · sociologist · businessperson · political scientist · philosopher · economist · also Mary Parker Follett, Mary Parker, Follett
Born 3 September 1868 · Died 18 December 1933 · Q237173
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2013· 1 entry
“Follett, Mary Parker (1868–1933)”
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1995· 1 entry
Her ideas had gained great influence after Chester Barnard, a New Jersey Bell executive and advisor to President Franklin D
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1933· 4 entries
Died 1933-12-18.
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“The study of human relations in business and the study of the technology of operating are bound up together.”
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“There is no such thing as vicarious experience.”
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“We can never wholly separate the human from the mechanical side... But you all see every day that the study of human relations in business and the study of operating are bound up together.”
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1918· 1 entry
Would evolve from a report into her second published work
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1898· 1 entry
With emphases in government, economics, law, and philosophy
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1896· 1 entry
And lauded in a review by Theodore Roosevelt as the best work ever written on the subject
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-09-03.
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