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Jane addams and hull house: Historical lessons on nonprofit leadership
Author(s) -
Knight Louise Wilby
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
nonprofit management and leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.844
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1542-7854
pISSN - 1048-6682
DOI - 10.1002/nml.4130020204
Subject(s) - settlement (finance) , value (mathematics) , democracy , corporate governance , sociology , management , meaning (existential) , head (geology) , political science , law , psychology , business , politics , economics , geomorphology , geology , finance , machine learning , computer science , payment , psychotherapist
Jane Addams, founder and head of Hull House, a social settlement in Chicago at the turn of the century, offers an intriguing model of a nonhierarchical, value‐oriented manager and leader. As the head resident of a group of some twenty volunteer residents—the staff of the settlement—Addams created an organizational culture and structure that encouraged individual initiative and self‐governance. Addams herself taught by example the value of tolerance and the meaning of social democracy, the moral goals whose attainment she sought.