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	Mary Parker Follett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mary Parker Follett was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on 3 September 1868, into an old New England family, and died in Boston on 18 December 1933.
		Follett believed in the unity of knowledge, and she draws on political, social, economic and legal theory as well as psychology and biology to construct a holistic picture of how we think, feel and experience, not only as individuals but as individuals-in-groups.
		Follett advocates that coordination should be handled directly by the responsible managers, not from unseen figures on high; where spans of control are insufficiently large, lateral coordination between heads of department is preferable to vertical coordination from the top down.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/follett.htm (2579 words)

	Mary Parker Follett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Parker Follett (1868–1933) was a social worker, consultant, and author of books on democracy, human relations, and management.
		Follett was born in Massachusetts and spent much of her early life there.
		Follet suggested that organizations function on the principle of power "with" and not power "over." Follett advocated the principle of integration and "power sharing." Her ideas on negotiation, power, and employee participation were influential in the development of organizational studies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Follett (184 words)

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		Mary Parker Follett's words, written some seven decades ago, seize our attention today as though she was speaking with us personally about our most contemporary concerns.
		Follett's appreciation of a five-year old boy's response to the Mona Lisa highlights her notion of the teacher as a life-long learner alongside her students.
		If Follett were alive today, she would undoubtedly find a way to invite all the authors contributing to the first volume of A Leadership Journal to a face-to-face gathering at her townhouse at the base of Boston's Beacon Hill or her summer retreat in Putney, Vermont.
	sunsite.utk.edu /FINS/Mary_Parker_Follett/Fins-MPF-03.txt (3772 words)

	Mary Parker Follett and informal education
		Follett became a popular lecturer - and it could be argued that one of the reasons that her ideas found a significant response at the time was the passion and charm with which she was able to communicate her thinking.
		Given this analysis it is no surprise that Mary Parker Follett argued for the deepening of people's capacities for, and commitment to, citizenship through involvement in groups and associations (in this respect she is an important advocate of la vie associative - the educative power of association).
		While Mary Parker Follett's contribution to management theory has come to be recognized, relatively little attention has been given in recent years to her work around the development of thinking and practice in the field of informal education and lifelong learning.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-foll.htm (3942 words)

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		Clearly, Follett was not only respected by her contemporaries for her remarkable theoretical contributions, but recognized even then for the impact and reach her ideas were sure to have in future generations of scholars.
		Follett’s influence is evident in Philipsen’s original framework for predicting the likelihood of reaching an agreement; that is, that the likelihood of two parties reaching an agreement is equal to the degree of effective communication multiplied by the degree of motivation to cooperate among the parties (LA = EC x M).
		Follett biographer Joan Tonn has speculated that one of the reasons for Follett’s obscurity after her death was that her ideas were simply ahead of the times in which Follett lived.
	www.com.washington.edu /program/publicscholarship/ps_bassett.html (2890 words)

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		Mary Parker Follett was one of the pioneers in the scholarly study of management.
		Follett writes in an energized, rapid-fire style, peppering her prose with examples from practice ranging from department stores, settlement houses, and the telephone company, to the League of Nations and jurisprudence.
		Follett calls for a new kind of social science, one that finds the social scientist focusing on the "social processes" seen as "cooperating experience" and not upon the formal system of organization.
	asterix.ednet.lsu.edu /~maxcy/7802_mod3B.htm (2769 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mary Parker Follett, born in 1868, an advocate of employee empowerment, constructive use of conflict in labor–management relations, and flatter organizational structures, decades before these concepts became fashionable in modern management theory (Ettore, 1995).
		Follett held the unusual notion that harmony could be achieved from the proper use of conflict, a theory that was politically incorrect for its time and even incomprehensible in an era dominated by men who believed the purpose of conflict was to vanquish the other party (Anonymous, 1997).
		Mary Parker Follet, a leading management thinker of her time, died in 1933 after an extensive career in management.
	www.dcpress.com /jmb/management.htm (1932 words)

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		We suggest that the work of both Mary Parker Follett and that of Stewart Clegg fills this gap, because they contextualize their conceptions of empowerment (and disempowerment) firmly within well-developed theories of power.
		This is because Follett's work occurred in the historical context of a debate over organizational governance and workplace democracy concerning the role of workers in organizational control.
		Follett's intellectual stance and consultancy work takes us beyond the either/or quality of the current debate, providing an alternative role model of co-active power for today's consultants and organizational practitioners.
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/papers/CleggFollett4_2.html (661 words)

	University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives - A Management Strategist For Our Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Following are three excerpts from Follett's book which provide a glimpse into her ideas on the topics of power, negotiating and strategic management, all of which I believe are relevant to cooperative managers today, even though her words were written in the 1920s.
		Follett takes the view that power inside organizations is something that is created by effective working relationships or by coordination among individuals or groups.
		To many contemporary readers, Follett's writing may seem wordy, and we want it summarized in a word, whether it be "vision," "re-inventing" or "empowerment." Yet she had a knack for describing complex mental processes in a concrete way, that gave fresh insights to the many different topics she addressed.
	www.wisc.edu /uwcc/info/farmer/pre2001/091096r1.html (1580 words)

	Mary Parker Follett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Generally, however, it is preferable that coordination should be undertaken by managers who are in direct contact with the workers.
		By coordination at the early stages Follett means that coordination should be built into a system from its inception.
		Control by attempting to force one element to perform an action alone, says Follett, is not control at all.
	www.thoemmes.com /404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/follett.htm (2579 words)

	Mary Parker Follett, Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Although Mary Parker Follett died in 1933, her philosophy of business organization and management is echoed in companies today where quality control, employee empowerment, and more horizontal organizational structures have been adopted with impressive results.
		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.
		Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was a pioneer in the field of social work before focusing on business organization and management.
	www.beardbooks.com /mary_parker_follett.html (855 words)

	Mary Parker Follett Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was a visionary and pioneering individual in the field of human relations, democratic organization, and management.
		Follett's intensive research into government while at Radcliffe was later published in her first book, The Speaker of the House of Representatives (1909), which was lauded (by, among others, Theodore Roosevelt) as the best study of this office of government ever done.
		Follett is increasingly recognized today as the originator, at least in the 20th century, of ideas that are today commonly accepted as "cutting edge" in organizational theory and public administration.
	www.follettfoundation.org /mpf.htm (580 words)

	[Management.com.ua] Creative Experience (Introduction)
		Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was a visionary and pioneer in human relations, democratic organization, and management.
		Peter Drucker discovered her work in the 1950's and is said to have referred to Follett as his "guru." Various papers and speeches on management issues were published in 1942 (Dynamic Administration) and in 1995 (Mary Parker Follett: Prophet of Management).
		Mary Parker Follett is increasingly recognized as the originator in the 20th century of ideas that are commonly accepted as "cutting edge" in organizational theory and public administration (i.e.
	www.management.com.ua /cm/cm018.html (2621 words)

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		Whilst the term was not in use in the first part of the twentieth century, Parker Follett’s observations on the concept heralded an approach that even now has not fully penetrated management thinking, let alone management practice.
		Parker Follett calls this having "power-with" as opposed to the notion of "power-over" which is implicit in the "zero-sum metaphor".
		But her writings contain many of the notions that are now becoming fashionable in management thinking such as the "win-win" approach to conflict resolution, the importance of "respectful reciprocity", the concept of emergent strategy, and the idea of creating synergies through co-operative endeavours.
	www.angelfire.com /mo3/acotrel/labourman/paradox.htm (1110 words)

	Mary: a prophet of management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mary Parker Follett - Prophet of Management: a Celebration of Writings from the 1920s, edited by Pauline Graham, an honorary graduate of the University.
		That so many distinguished writers should have gathered to produce what might be described as a belated fest-schrift in honour of Follett marks, one would hope, the beginning of a new attention to what she has to say.
		Follett declared unequivocally: "I want to show that the basis for understanding the problems of political science is the same as the basis for understanding business administration - it is the understanding of the nature of integrative unities."
	www.brad.ac.uk /university/newsandviews/95-06/Mary_a_prophet_of_management.html (243 words)

	Creating a Global Neighborhood: Mary Parker Follett Responds to David Korten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Follett would have responded, what follows draws exclusively from her own writings, thus being as true as possible to a Follett response.
		Mary Parker Follett was born into a well-to-do New England family in 1868.
		Follett, on the other hand, called for the implementation of the scientific method in industry, in government, and in the life of communities.
	www.pamij.com /99_4_1_godfrey.html (6639 words)

	Mary Parker Follett - Organisations@Onepine
		In the 1920's Mary Parker Follett's comments and writing on leadership, power, law of the situation, conflict integration and circular behaviour, empowerment, teams, and networked organisations, importance of relationships within and among organisations, authority, control, etc. were way ahead of her time.
		Mary Follett’s work is currently the subject of scholarly inquiry and application in countries around the globe—and in fields such as government, political theory, history, organizational theory and behavior, conflict and negotiation, women’s studies, sociology, psychology, communication, and social work.
		There is an article on "Mary Parker Follett: visionary leadership and strategic management" available in 'Women in Mangament Review' November 1999 which you should be able to access via any academic library on online journal library.
	www.onepine.info /pfollett.htm (1079 words)

	Mary Parker Follett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		To spring forward and then to follow the path steadfastly is forever the duty of Americans.
		Mary Parker Follett, The New State (1918) (Full Text)
		Matthew Shapiro, Sketch Biography of Author Mary Parker Follett (Dec 1996)
	sunsite.utk.edu /FINS/Mary_Parker_Follett (144 words)

	Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil,David Samuels, Cambridge University Press, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		I learned then that she had become a major theorist in organizational leadership and had been the earliest known advocate of the "soft" approach to leadership, one that stressed persons rather than tasks, the fulfillment of human potential as a means to organizational productivity.
		Follett developed this perspective at a time when scientific management was in its heyday, and while it might not now seem too hard to offer a benign alternative to Taylorism, Follett was the one who did.
		In this book we see Mary Parker Follett, and through her, the evolution of American government and administration during the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.apsanet.org /~lss/Newsletter/july03/booknotes.htm (6121 words)

	Managing Leadership: Mary Parker Follett: Leading the way in the 21st century
		A main theme in the book's discussion of the literature, and, in particular, of Mary Parker Follett, is the failure of observers and practitioners to catch and develop the key insights of thinkers like her.
		Mary Parker Follett's work was employed, in Managing Leadership, as the springboard into the discussion of the major thesis of the book.
		We will discuss her methods to generate her ideas, the bases for analyzing them, what they are, and how they are of greater concern and immediately practical value to us today than virtually any other writing in the genre.
	managingleadership.blogspot.com /2004/11/mary-parker-follett-leading-way-in.html (1258 words)

	Follett, Mary Parker Greatest Consultant of all Times
		Mary Parker Follett applied philosophy to her consulting practice, during the hey day of Scientific Management and Taylorism.
		Follett refused, as we have illustrated, to reify dualities.
		Follett's Ghost, Mary Parker Follett So-Called Admirers.A draft essay on Mary Parker Follett and her so-called admirers, on how some overconfident academics divert students away from a truer understanding of Mary Parker Follett http://www.onepine.demon.co.uk/%20http://enhanced-designs.com/tcbhome/ghost.htm
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/teaching/503/follett_links.html (386 words)

	Network-Centric Advocacy: 1925 Mary Parker Follett: Network Thinker
		Mary Parker Follett was best known for her work around the administration and management of organizations.
		It is hard to imagine Mary (if she were around today) not being a leader in network-centric advocacy.
		The leaps in tools to "see" network connections among participants would have made her work so much more compelling and the quantum leap in the amount of connections that are possible in today's connected age would have made her very excited about the power of the self-organized nature of ad hoc project teams.
	www.network-centricadvocacy.net /2005/09/1925_mary_parke.html (308 words)

	National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
		The Second International Mary Parker Follett Conversation on Creative Democracy is scheduled to be held October 21-24, 2004 at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.
		Theme proposals should be sent to Matthew Shapiro, Conversation Coordinator, at mshapiro@follettfoundation.org or by mail to the Mary Parker Follett Foundation, P.O. Box 573, Boise, ID 83701.
		The Mary Parker Follett Foundation was founded in 1995 as the Idaho Systems Institute.
	www.thataway.org /news/archives/000055.html (1085 words)

	Business Library, The University of Western Ontario
		Mary Parker Follett - Prophet of Management: A Celebration of Writings from the 1920s (BUS stack HD31.M334 1995) and the subject is obviously Follett who was a social theorist earlier in this century.
		Mary Parker Follett - Prophet of Management (BUS stack HD 31.M334) which she edited.
		Mary Parker Follett: An Application of Her Management Theories to Educational Administration by Lorraine Vanderkerckhove (EDU stack AS 42.L85.V29).
	www.lib.uwo.ca /business/follett.html (738 words)

	ACR Awards
		The Mary Parker Follett Award is presented to an individual who has shown a passion and willingness to take risks; is tackling a contemporary problem or opportunity in the field of dispute resolution; has used innovative and experimental techniques; and draws upon the talents and ideas of all persons involved.
		Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) was an early advocate of resolving conflict by encouraging parties to integrate interests into negotiations.
		During the mid-1920s, Follett shifted her focus from community group processes to the field of business.
	www.acrnet.org /about/awards/2005call4nominations.htm (414 words)

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