Week 4

Week 4: Nazi Soup…Soup Nazi

-Human Relations

“Human relations thinking emphasized the interpersonal and social needs of individuals and marked a clean break from earlier points of view. The human relations approach starts with the assumption that all people ‘want to feel…

Week 4- Human relations

The book discusses how Mary Parker Follett, Elton Mayo, and Chester Barnard provided the foundation for human relations. In the 1930s these people examined employee-manager relationships in a new way and their ideas have become a pioneer of how we think about management today. Mary…

Week 4: Human Relations and Human Resources Approaches

The first thing that came to mind when reading about human relation theories was how unique America is in comparison to other parts of the world. If there is anything that America can boast about is its costumer service and human…

Week 4: Prophet of Management — Mary Parker Follett

As a present day worker — not a manager, in a large corporation — I am forever grateful to a Boston social worker named, Mary Parker Follett, who advocated for replacing the scientific management approach in organizations, with the human relations approach.

Week 4: Relations and Resources

Mary Parker Follett was a pioneer in the Human Relations movement. She valued the creativity brought by every member of the team and began to see workers as individuals with their own skill sets. This was a radical opinion in the 1920s and 1930s when scientific management…

Week 4: Humans Relations

Mary Parker Follett

Mary Parker Follett was ahead of her time when she began theorizing about organizations and how they work. Follett focused on group work and thought that groups of people working together was how an organization should be run. She…

Week 4 — Human relations and human resources approaches to management

This week we’re focusing on the last half of chapter 3 in which we were introduced to two more theories of management:

• human relations: “aimed at restoring whole human beings and…