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  2. Mary Parker Follett (3 September 1868 – 18 December 1933) was an American management consultant, social worker, philosopher and pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior. Along with Lillian Gilbreth, she was one of two great women management experts in the early days of classical management theory.

  3. Mary Parker Follett was born in Quincy Massachusetts, near Boston, in 1868 of a long-established family. She inherited an independent income in 1885 which helped to pay for her education and afforded her freedom of action later in life.

  4. Nov 10, 2022 · Mary Parker Follett was a visionary and pioneering individual in the field of human relations, democratic organization, and management. Born in Massachusetts, in 1892 she entered what would become Radcliffe College, the women’s branch of Harvard. She graduated from Radcliffe summa cum laude in 1898.

  5. American visionary of modern management theory and a proponent of democratic governance in organizations who worked as a social worker, political thinker, researcher, consultant, and author. Born Mary Parker Follett in Quincy, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1868; died in Boston on December 18, 1933; daughter of Charles Allen Follett (a skilled ...

  6. Sep 2, 2021 · Mary Parker Follett, Social Entrepreneur. The period of 1900–1915 was, for Follett, a major period of social engagement. She was involved in several social change projects that helped forge her ideas related to change and group dynamics, leadership, and participatory democracy.

  7. Jan 29, 2024 · In the bustling streets of early 20th-century Boston, where intellectual fervor met rigid social norms, Mary Parker Follett navigated a world that was often unready for her progressive ideas. Born in 1868 into an era where women's voices in academia and management were seldom given any chance to be heard, Parker Follett's journey was not just ...

  8. Jan 1, 2018 · Follett formulated the idea of a basic and applied science/art of integration. She saw this knowledge as the basis for individual, collective and societal life in a democracy, which she understood as a social experiment pushing tensions between autonomy and interdependency.