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Bass Business History - Western Electric Hawthorne Papers
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    • Index to Hawthorne Study Documents

    • Index to Hawthorne Study Documents

    • 1924-1957

    • Index to administration, public relations, personnel counseling and reference materials, including speeches organized by speaker. The documents listed cover the entire study

    • Box 15, Folder 1
    • Counseling in a Group Situation

    • Counseling in a Group Situation

    • 1940

    • Counseling record, entitled: Counseling in a group situation, by Phyllis Dodds. It contains detailed descriptions about the interviews, conversations, observations, as well as counselors own impressions, feelings, etc. which happened during the...

    • Box 15, Folder 2
    • Station Apparatus Shop:  Personnel Counseling Experiment

    • Station Apparatus Shop: Personnel Counseling Experiment

    • 1936

    • Comments on interviews in the station apparatus shop and a review of experience in connection with beginning the personnel counseling experiment. The experiment was designed as a more thorough interview process where the interviewer looked at...

    • Box 15, Folder 3
    • Personnel Counseling Experiment:  Review

    • Personnel Counseling Experiment: Review

    • January 1936-March 1937

    • Five reports reviewing the personnel counseling experiment from January, 1936 to March, 1937. Included are the appendices about attitudes of short and long service employees, outline and suggestions for discussing the labor situation, and tables...

    • Box 15, Folder 4
    • Counseling:  Defined

    • Counseling: Defined

    • 1949

    • Document defining counseling for the purposes of the personnel counseling experiment and explains the methodology and purpose of the experiment

    • Box 15, Folder 5
    • Social Relationships Among Departments at Hawthorne

    • Social Relationships Among Departments at Hawthorne

    • 1936

    • Report, entitled: Notation of the points of view and social interrelationships of departments at Hawthorne that are directly concerned with wage problems, by E. C. Tessman. This report includes the information and impressions gained during a two...

    • Box 15, Folder 6
    • Organization and Operation

    • Organization and Operation

    • 1936

    • Report containing the general information on the organization and operation of the wage incentives, time standards and labor grades departments

    • Box 15, Folder 7
    • Reactions to Layoffs

    • Reactions to Layoffs

    • 1938

    • Summary of why layoffs had to occur and how employees were chosen for layoff. Also included are the employee and supervisor comments regarding the layoffs

    • Box 15, Folder 8
    • Results of Changes to Pay Structure

    • Results of Changes to Pay Structure

    • 1938

    • Description of work behavior related to incentives and of the relationship between the supervisors and employees in the station apparatus shop. Included are observations of employee work and analysis of interviews. The purpose is to outline what...

    • Box 15, Folder 9
    • Letters: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Letters: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • February 1929-December 1930

    • C.E. Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology and Public Health wrote G.A. Pennock and M.L. Putnam. The letters discuss testing causes for increased output, analyzing output by 15 minute intervals, testing vascular skin...

    • Box 17, Folder 3
    • Investigator Correspondence

    • Investigator Correspondence

    • 1928-1934

    • Correspondence passed among investigators from September 1928 to February 1934. Letters to G.A. Pennock from Dr. Elton Mayo examined blood pressure, visits, generalizing mind for administration and societal changes; biological measures needs,...

    • Box 17, Folder 4
    • Correspondence:  Labor-Management Conflict

    • Correspondence: Labor-Management Conflict

    • 1940

    • Documents contain the correspondence between the President of Western Electric Employees Association, Inc., Mr. George DuVal, and the Vice President, W. F. Hosford, and the report on a conference to resolve a labor-management conflict over piece...

    • Box 15, Folder 12
    • Industrial Relations

    • Industrial Relations

    • 1940

    • list of concepts with explanations that have grown out of the industrial research of observers that denotes the working group as a society

    • Box 15, Folder 13
    • Inspector Attitudes After Pay Restructure

    • Inspector Attitudes After Pay Restructure

    • 1939

    • Report discussing the problems that the supervisors are having after the change in pay scale across the company. Changes in attitude and relations to other workers are included

    • Box 15, Folder 11
    • Installation of a Product Shop

    • Installation of a Product Shop

    • 1940

    • Detailed plan to start a shop at Hawthorne based on product as a new form of structural organization. This structure is based on the most efficient way to create each product and using the least skilled labor possible. Outlined are advantages and...

    • Box 15, Folder 14
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