Question

____________ suggested that organizations should be operated as "communities," with managers and subordinates working together in harmony. For example, in a publishing company run as a community, editors, editorial assistants, and publishers would work together to determine which books should be published.

a. Adam Smith
b. Frank Gilbreth
c. Hugo Munsterberg
d. Mary Parker Follett
e. Max Weber

Answer 1

Option D

Mary Parker Follett suggested that organizations should be operated as "communities," with managers and subordinates working together in harmony.

Explanation:

Mary Parker Follett served as an administration and political ideologist. Follett proposed that firms work on the postulate of control "with" and not control "over." She acknowledged the holistic reality of the society and suggested the concept of "mutual relations" in explaining the progressive appearances of the self in accord with others.

She seemed to accost companies as group systems preferably than as hierarchical formations and served to the impact of personal associations inside the group. she brought her thoughts encompassing community groups and networks and demanded them to public and financial organizations.