Abstract
THE happily chosen title of this collection of papers strikes the keynote which gives them their unity. Behind the admirable analysis of the principles of administration contained in them lies the conception of administration and organization as dynamic rather than static. The task of the administrator is not that of crystallizing the experience of the past in set forms which will guide him in dealing with present or future situations. It is rather that of understanding the whole situation confronting him, recognizing the interacting and unifying elements, and so relating their functions that he sets in motion a process which continuously promotes unity and coherence.
Dynamic Administration
The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett. Edited by Dr. Henry C. Metcalf L. Urwick. Pp. 320. (London: Management Publications Trust, Ltd., 1941.)
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BRIGHTMAN, E. Dynamic Administration. Nature 148, 640–641 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148640a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148640a0
