Western Electric Company Hawthorne studies collection, 1924-1934 (inclusive) [microform].

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Western Electric Company Hawthorne studies collection, 1924-1934 (inclusive) [microform].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600514

Reports, research papers, and interviews, relating to studies in industrial and employee relations carried out at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works, Chicago, Ill. Includes 300 employee interviews and several hundred units of performance tapes.

8.6 linear ft. (14 boxes, 12 flat boxes, 9 v., 186 microfiche, 7 reels of film)

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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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...