ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the basis for understanding the problems of political science is the same as the basis for understanding business administration - it is the understanding of the nature of integrative unities. Not a management consultant in the accepted sense of the term, Mary Parker Follett was yet increasingly sought out by business people to investigate their problems in factories and offices. Follett was amongst the first to introduce the study of power in the management field. She recognized that the central fact underlying all relations, whether they be in the home, in politics, national or international, in industry or in any other group, is the question of power, usually a way of achieving power-over the others. A business is an organization made up of a number of subsidiary work-groups, each carrying a part of the overall task.
