September 2013
Beginner
320 pages
6h 20m
English
The Hawthorne Effect – one of the most frequently cited management studies – is not all it seems.
Between 1924 and 1932, Elton Mayo and Fritz J. Roethlisberger – both professors at Harvard Business School – undertook a series of groundbreaking workplace studies at General Electric’s enormous Hawthorne Works factory just outside of Chicago. Of the large number of experiments that took place, one of the most famous was based on illumination. Women workers (some became minor celebrities as a result of the studies) were asked to form teams, with their output measured by completed ...
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