List of names and addresses of the recipients of the 1929 report, Distribution of Rest Period Report, Distribution of Hours Report, and the Distribution of Relay Operators Comments and the 1928 report along with the number of copies sent to each...
Describes the results of the test began April 25, 1927, concerning the effect of rest periods on the productivity of six girls who performed relay assembly work. These six participants were moved into the test room and their productivity was...
Describes the purpose of the study of the six relay assembly employees as a test to determine if rest periods and rest periods accompanied with shorter working hours improved worker efficiency. The report duplicates Progress Report No. 1 by...
Duplicates Progress Report No. 1 and 2 with the addition of a health questionnaire, notes on the physical examinations of each of the test employees, and a discussion about output increases when work shortened to 4:00 p.m. and then returned to 5:00...
Discusses the increase of productivity in the test room. Productivity increased when the workday was shortened. Lower production on Monday and Saturday was thought to be due to mental preoccupation in the majority of cases, not cumulative...
Letter from Elton Mayo to Mr. M.K. Stevenson regarding the results of taking blood pressure and pulse measurements of the workers as a measurement of fatigue. This was to ascertain if rest periods had any effect on the fatigue of workers.
Comments made by the six test subjects in the relay assembly test room from 1927-1930. The comments are sorted into six categories: rest periods, hours, holidays and vacations; production, earnings, repairs and type; supervision and test room...
Study of the workers reactions to a five-day workweek with standard hours versus a five and one-half day workweek with shorter days. Workers unanimously preferred the five-day workweek with Saturday morning off. Also included is the study that...
Raw data regarding the effect of rest break variations on the daily output of 5 mica-splitting operators was measured over a 37-week period in 1928. Included are tables of the average accumulated totals, charts of output, and daily output logs for...
Comments from mica test room operators. The comments were recorded and classified as follows: A. Rest periods, hours, holidays, vacations; B. Production, earnings, repairs, type; C. Supervision and test room environment; D. Attitudes and transient...
Various pieces of correspondence from 1929-1932 among Western Electric administrators. The earlier pieces of correspondence, including letters to Dr. Elton B. Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Graduate School of Business Administration,...
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