CHAPTER 6

Management of Conflicts and Objectives

MARY PARKER FOLLETT-CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Mary Parker Follet is the first lady in the field of administrative theory. She is regarded as a bridge between the classical approach and the behavioural-human relations approach to organisation. The majority of her work was devoted to the issue of conflict and integration.

Her major works include:

1. The Speaker of the House of Representatives (1896)

2. The New State (1920)

3. Creative Experience (1924)

4. Dynamic Administration (1941). It is a set of Follett’s papers edited by L. Urwick and H. Metcalf.

CONFLICT AND INTEGRATION

In her work Creative Experience, she explained that conflicts in organisations are inevitable due to individual differences. Conflict ...

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