Mary Parker Follett and the Quest for Pragmatic Administration

摘要: Beyond simply accepting Mary Parker Follett `s reputation as an innovative administrative theorist, this article scrutinizes both her theories and supporting ideation for these theories. It finds that she constructed theory on a mixture of idealism pragmatism. She vacillated between the two. In idealist mode claimed administration fulfilled individual. pragmatic mode, stressed organizational problem solving. mistakenly assumed claims could be based two very different, often contradictory, philosophic traditions. The result, then, was unfounded "organizational imperative" modern organizations were vital individual development well essential survival liberal democracy.