Mary Parker (1868 - 1933)
As Taylorism was gaining influence among business managers, Mary Parker was examining the effect that people, not rules, procedures or engineering structures, have in organizations. Although not a social scientist, Follett was, at one point in his career, a professor well-regarded in business management and social services. Based on his experience as a community social worker, she spoke about organizations as integrator units, in which the contribution of each person for all workers, customers and others, created a whole new entity. (Lester, William.2010)
Follett noted that integration occurs when "people in the organization recognize their interdependence, joint responsibilities and common interests." Those individuals could include employees and volunteers, clients and others with whom the organization and are interdependent. His ideas foreshadowed the work of social scientists and the behavior associated with what was later known as the interactionalist Etzioni model. In contrast to Taylor, and Weber (who placed the office above his head), Follett is clearly focused on the psychological rather than the logic of organizations.
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Follet attended the Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women, in Cambridge, Massachusetts (later Radcliffe College), graduating with a degree in economics, government, law and philosophy. While still in college he published his first book, The Speaker of the House
Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she
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What would you do if you were a witness to child abuse today? Would you turn your head as if it were not your business, would you intervene immediately, or would you report the abuser to the authorities? It was approximately 1869 - 1870 when a woman named Charlotte Fiehling "cringed at the sound of the child's beating. She had heard it before, but had never laid eyes the child. The little girl was no more than five or six if she was a day, judging by her size, and her poor legs were striped with the welts of a whip, her body bruised from blows. Her hair matted and infested with vermin, no doubt, and she did not appear to have had a bath of any kind for many days, if not weeks" (qtd. In Shelman 187). This little girls name was Mary
He went to school at Yale University, Harvard Business University, The Kinkaid School, and Phillips Academy. He was a very educated man. He studied business and political cases. As every politician he
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Born in the south of Louisiana, and then raised for the rest of her life down here in the Bay Area. My grandma, Patricia Wright, gave me the opportunity to interview her about life and the up bringing as a black child, black teen and a black woman in her era. With my research I went through some of the sources from in class discussions,but happen to relate more with other scholarly sources. I was able to get deep and discuss how it was for her socially, economically, politically, and culturally where she lived.
Mary Edwards Walker accomplished many things in the 86 years that she was alive. She faced many challenges, however was persistent enough to accomplish being the first and only woman to ever receive a Medal of Honor. Mary Walker was a women’s right activist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, abolitionist, and surgeon. Her hard work payed off, as she received the highest recognition for bravery in the ‘United States Armed Forces’.
On January 1, 2011, Mary Brown (victim) went jogging at 7:00 pm on the route she had been taking for six months and passing the usual houses. Upon reaching 123 Roper Street, a man, John Smith (defendant) ran out, tackled her to the ground, jumped on top of her, and eventually pinned her down. Then the defendant, using a box cutter, stabbed the victim in the face, making a five-inch gash just below her left eye. While cutting the victim, the defendant stated, “I watch you run by here every day and I wave hello to you from my window, but you never wave back. You think you are too pretty to wave at me, well now you will not be pretty anymore.” The defendant’s neighbor, Mike Jones, witnessed the attack and heard everything from his yard, but was too afraid to stop the attack. John Smith has been charged with aggravated malicious wounding.
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1, 1910. Clyde Chestnut “Champion” Barrow was born on March 24, 1909. They met in Texas in 1930. At the time, Bonnie was 19 and married to an imprisoned murder, Roy Thornton. Their marriage crumbled just after a few months. Bonnie never saw Roy again after he was in prison. Although she never saw him again, they never got a divorce. Clyde was 21 and unmarried. As a teenager, Clyde attempted to enroll in the U.S. Navy, but due a childhood illness, possibly malaria or yellow fever. He had already tattooed “USN” on his left arm, before getting the rejection. Clyde was first put in jail when he never returned a rental car in 1926. Three weeks later, Clyde and his brother, Ivan, were arrested for possession
The History of Mary Prince was a seminal work of the nineteenth century, which today remains an important historical device. Mary Prince’s story is not unique, but the circumstances and context surrounding her novel are. Defying contemporary standards and beliefs, The History of Mary Prince demonstrates the atrocities of slavery, but also a distinctive and deliberate political message. The History of Mary Prince is not only important for its demonstration of human suffering and the legal history it documents, but it also offers insight into the British abolition movement. Twofold, it remains an important text through both its straightforward portrayal of facts and experience as well as its underlying careful manipulation of political and moral themes. The History of Mary Prince served as an influential abolitionist piece of writing, but furthermore can incite multiple layers of interpretation and analysis of the abolition movement.
Mary Anning was born in 1799, and she lived in the holiday resort Lyme Regis in Dorset. The cliffs and foreshore of Lyme Regis was rich in fossils such as belemnites, ammonites, small reptiles and sometimes fish, all in which were deposited in the Jurassic seas 200 million years ago.
Theory X was labeled by McGregor as being a “hard” style of management, where hard meant that management would have close supervision on its workers, as well as having strong control and coercion. He determined that a hard style would not be effective for production and organization that practiced this style would have restricted output and workers would distrust management, therefore there would be a need for a softer side of management. McGregor based his evaluation of Theory X manager’s on Abrahams Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory (Barnett).
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Organization development grew out of the human relations traditions of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has had enormous influence on management practices and thinking about how organizational effectiveness can be achieved. Critical manpower and resource shortages faced by all organizations, public and private, during World War II and in the immediate post-war years stimulated a search by social scientist and managers, separately and in cooperation with one another, for effective means to maximize the utilization of existing individual and organizational resources. (Ritcher, I 2007). Organization Development was by tradition about planned change efforts, instituted to enhance organization effectiveness within the context of the traditional, hierarchical, management-as-experts, top-down era. The legacy of leaders and organizations developed in this context remain. Organizational Development is about how organizations and people function and how to get them to function better. Organization transformation signals the need to transform mindsets, engage people and make the deep shift to the ongoing mutual learning environment needed for the long-lasting change characteristic of our world today.
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