Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection, (inclusive) 1924-1961

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Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection, (inclusive) 1924-1961

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Reports, research papers, and interviews, relating to studies in industrial and employee relations carried out at Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works near Chicago, Illinois.

8.6 linear feet (14 boxes, 12 flat boxes, 9 volumes)

Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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SNAC Resource ID: 6382555

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Roethlisberger, F. J. (Fritz Jules), 1898-1974

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Fritz Jules Roethlisberger earned a BA in engineering from Columbia University (1921) BS in engineering administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1922), and an MA in philosophy from Harvard University (1925). His studies toward a PhD in philosophy at Harvard were interrupted when he met Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research at Harvard Business School. He became Mayo's assistant and a member of the HBS Department of Industrial Research from 1927 to 1946. He became Inst...

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Mica Splitting Test Room

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Mayo, Elton, 1880-1949

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Elton Mayo joined HBS in 1926 as Head of the new Department of Industrial Research. He was Associate Professor at Harvard Business School from 1926-1929, Professor from 1929-1947, and Professor Emeritus from 1947-1949. Between 1928 and 1933 Mayo was closely associated with the Hawthorne Studies, an industrial research project conducted at the Western Electric Company plant in Hawthorne, Illinois. He died in Guilford, England on December 9, 1949. From the description of Elton Mayo pap...

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The Western Electric Company was a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. The firm manufactured a wide variety of telephone equipment at its Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois. A notable series of worker efficiency experiments known as the Hawthorne Studies were staged at the plant between 1924 and 1933. From the description of Photograph album, 1925. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 52815587 From the description of Western Electric Com...

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

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Illumination Study

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Inspection Branch

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