Fritz J. Roethlisberger papers, 1918-1974.

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Fritz J. Roethlisberger papers, 1918-1974.

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Collection consists of papers of Fritz J. Roethlisberger. These papers document his activities as an administrator and professor at Harvard Business School and his participation in the Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies. Administrative and teaching records include correspondence, memos, and teaching notes related to Human Relations courses. Of special interest is Professor Roethlisberger's correspondence with psychologist Abraham Maslow, author and executive Chester Barnard, and Hawthorne Studies collaborators Elton Mayo and William Dickson, among others. Topics discussed include the nature of managerial and personnel work within organizations, organizational behavior, human relations in the workplace, the training of supervisors, and other matters. General materials relating to the Hawthorne Studies include correspondence between Fritz Roethlisberger and the Western Electric Company and reports by researchers which include observations of employees and summaries of employee interviews. Files contain information about employee attitudes, home life, absenteeism, productivity, and other matters, as well as notes by researchers who attempted to interrelate and interpret these factors. Roethlisberger also conducted research at the Norfolk Prison Colony in Massachusetts; and conducted an Executive Compensation Study with other faculty at HBS. This study evaluated various corporations offering executive compensation plans from 1938 to 1940. Roethlisberger's instructions to his field representatives are also included.

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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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...

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...

Western electric company

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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...

Massachusetts. State Prison Colony, Norfolk.

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Dickson, W. J. (William John), 1904-

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Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold)

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Abraham Harold Maslow was born on April 1, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York. Maslow became interested in psychology at a young age, though first studying law before receiving degrees at the University of Wisconsin in psychology (BA in 1930, MA in 1931, PhD in 1934). While at Wisconsin, he became closely associated with Harry Harlow and his primate studies. After graduation, Maslow worked with E. L. Thorndike at Columbia. He then taught at Brooklyn College from 1937 until 1951. From 1951 ...

Harvard university. Graduate school of business administration

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The faculty of the Harvard Business School was formally organized in 1913. For the school's first two years (1908-1910) the teaching staff was organized informally. From 1910 to 1913 the teaching and administrative staff was organized as an Administrative Board. From the description of Faculty minutes, 1908- [microform]. (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269607747 ...

Barnard, Chester I., 1886-1961

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Business executive and management theorist. Barnard attended Harvard for three years but left in 1909 and went to work for A.T. & T. He rose rapidly in the company, becoming president of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company in 1927. He left the Bell system in 1948 and served for four years as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Barnard is most famous for his classic study of the theory of organization The Functions of the Executive, published in 1938. From the description o...