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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Mary Parker Follett"”.
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Mary Parker Follett: Toward Organizational Communication Ethics in a Flattening and Fearful World
… This dissertation examines the life and work of Mary Parker Follett who offers meaningful insight for ethical practice in such a time as this within organizational communication.</p><p> Follett's life can be understood through both her experiences and her writing along with the frameworks and …
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Corporate to management social responsibility : extending CSR to MSR guided by Mary Parker Follett
… of social scientist and management theorist, Mary Parker Follett (1868 – 1933). Secondly, Follett’s work is synthesised and offered as a starting point to deal with other management demands in theory and practice. The case for MSR invokes the same principles for the elimination of workplace …
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"Candles of the nation": community-based nonprofit human service institutions in the process of public governance
In the new State, Mary Parker Follett argues that the â neighborhood groupâ is the center of citizenship and democratic governance. In doing so, she takes us into territory that remains largely unexplored: social processes and how they can create an ideal democracy.
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Governance, Citizenship, and the New Sciences: Lessons From Dewey and Follett on Realizing Democratic Administration
… drawn from the life work of John Dewey and Mary Parker Follett - lessons clarified by the premises and assumptions of the new sciences and activities congruent with those lessons. This dissertation is comprised of four broad components: a history of administrative reform as told through the …
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… found in the disguised or silent pragmatism of Mary Parker Follett, the popularized, corrupted, and nominal pragmatisms of Charles A. Beard and Herbert Simon, and the implicit pragmatism of Dwight Waldo. The discovery of this heritage of “hidden” pragmatism Carries with it significant …
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Seeing through organization: the experience of social relations as constitutive
… for this study is grounded in the work of Mary Parker Follett and family systems theorists. While Follett’s ideas prove useful in elucidating the process of organization generally, family systems theory speaks to the psychology of that process. In this study, the two are theoretically …
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Directing through Dialogue: A theatre director’s exploration of leadership
The esteemed position that a director holds in the creative process is a recent phenomenon. It emerged towards the end of the 19th century. Then, the role of a theatre director encompassed the idea of a single, creative force, coordinating and controlling the elements of a production. Not much has …