The Hawthorne Studies conducted by Elton Mayo and his colleagues were a series of influential experiments carried out at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago between the late 1920s and early 1930s which revealed that psychological and social factors had a profound impact on productivity.
Professor Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo The Problem of Working Together 1932 BookBlast® Estates
My grandfather, George Elton Mayo (1880-1949), the psychologist, organizational theorist and acknowledged founder of the Human Relations Movement, had innovative ideas and theories based on a lifetime of research which he often expressed in speeches […]
