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, died in 1933 in Boston. Over the years 1888-1898 Mary Parker 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)

Mary Parker Follett had performed several functions:

• president of the organization of the City Committee of the Wider Use of School Buildings (1908)
• vice-president of the National Association of Cultural Houses (1917-1921)
• lecturer in industrial management based on the Oxford principles (1926)
• Consultant of the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization in Geneva (1928)
• lecturer at the London School of Economics (1933)

Publications

Mary Parker Follett is an author of several books, articles and speeches. The most famous publications are:

• The Speaker of the House of Representatives (1896)
• The New State (1918)
• Creative Experience
• Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett (1942)
• Community is a Proces (1919) (Stout, Love, Patalon, 2015)

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