Arguably the most widely recognised experiments in motivation took place at the Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne plant in Chicago. Between 1924 and 1932, five sets of tests were conducted in an effort to figure out what made operatives assembling telephone equipment more productive. At the start the experiments concentrated on improvements to lighting. Productivity indeed […]
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Hawthorne Experiments and Team Building
The hawthorne experiments The Hawthorne Experiments were conducted by Professor Elton Mayo, from 1927 to 1932, at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago. The experiments were primarily started with the intention of studying the relationship between productivity and work conditions. Professor Mayo started these experiments by examining the physical and environmental influences of the […]