Mayo, Elton

Mayo, Elton, The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, Routledge Kegan Paul Ltd, London (1952)... 

Reshef Y. Elton Mayo the human relations movement 1880-1949. http //courses. bus.ualberta.ca/orga417-reshef/mayo.htm, accessed December 29, 2003. 

Baffled by the results, the researchers called in a team of psychologists from Harvard University lead by Elton Mayo. Over the course of five years, hundreds of experiments involving thousands of employees were conducted. In these experiments, the researchers altered variables such as wage payment, rest periods, and length of the workday. The results were similar to those obtained in the lighting experiments production increased in no obvious relationship to the environment. After much analysis, the psychologists concluded that other factors besides the physical environment affected worker productivity [6]. 

Between 1927 and 1932, at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company in Chicago, a Harvard Business School professor named Elton Mayo conducted a series of experiments involving members of the workforce. 

As we know, many scholars focused their studies on workers s activities. Social scientists and management experts proposed various theories to interpret workers s activities. A good example is the Hawthorne experiments of Elton Mayo (1933 [I960]). 

Henderson, Lawrence. The Effects of Social Environment (with Elton Mayo). Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 18 (1936) 410-16. 

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