Mary Parker Follett
Mary Parker Follett was an American economist, known also as the "mother of the modern management". She was renowned for emphasizing collaboration and personnel management in businesses. Follett's guidelines for managing a team to achieve organizational success still hold true today. Small enterprises can still benefit from Follett's management theory. (Peek, 2022)
Organizational behavior theory was revolutionized by Mary Parker Follett using psychology and human relations inside industrial management. Follett was a management consultant, author, lecturer, and social worker who gave personal counsel to President Theodore Roosevelt. (Peek, 2022)
Biography
Mary Parker Follett was born in United States of America in 1868 in Massachusetts. Over the years 1888-1898 Mary Parket Follett was a student of the University of Cambridge and then moved to study at Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women in Cambridge, one of the departments of Harvard University, in which she graduated in field of political science and economy. (Korombel, Grabiec, 2016)
She spent several years working in social welfare in Boston, where she got a ton of experience in planning and running educational and recreational facilities that offered social help and education to children. (Korombel, Grabiec, 2016)
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