Hawthorne Works by Dennis Schlagheck

Hawthorne Works by Dennis Schlagheck

Author:Dennis Schlagheck
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00


General Electric and the National Research Council funded the first studies at Hawthorne in 1924. Looking at the effects of illumination on worker productivity, operators in several departments, such as the coil-winding department (below), were observed at different levels of lighting. The hypothesis was that greater light would increase productivity. However, workers’ output increased as the lights were both turned up and dimmed. Some workers were able to meet shift goals while working in near darkness. Hawthorne management decided that other factors must be at work and that further study was needed. Elton Mayo of Harvard was called in to form a formal study on factors affecting productivity. The Hawthorne Studies, conducted over the next nine years, involved hundreds of workers from several departments and would have dramatic effects on business and the study of sociology for decades. (Both courtesy of the Jezek collection.)



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