The Giving Of Orders Follett Summary

The reading “The Giving of Orders” written by Mary P. Follett analyzes the importance how the management should be able to assess the appropriate integration of attitudes, behavior and language necessary to give orders to its industrial workers. The writer criticized how managers have used a language and manners that under the tyrannical authority, and only increases self-resentment. The author believes that managers should be able to build attitudes, to adequately respond to the most appropriate way when sanctioning or giving orders to an individual. Mary believed that an individuals may respond differently in accordance with the voice and manner implied to him or her. More importantly, the author rejects the principles described in scientific

The reading suggest that the managers should be able to use their intelligence to evaluate the situation and develop attitudes that are in accordance with the type of order. Another example is when Mary states that supervisors should let the workers to use their capacity to recognize their errors. Follett argued, “It is better for all of us not only to acknowledge our mistakes, but to do something about them” (p. 161).

What is the role of public administrators in this reading or maybe according to the definition found in the reading?

The role of public administrators is to drive away from the traditional forms of management that relied on the tyrannies, instead managers should be cautious about the way they give orders. The depersonalizing orders allow for the managers to implement functional unity by integrating the evaluation of behavior, language, and attitudes to their critical judgment to advocate for employment participation rather than suppression. Mary argued, “Yes, but only if he creates this attitude by integration not by suppression” (p. 157).

Where does the power of decision-making rest according to this reading in an