Unfinished rough draft that concentrates on determining under what conditions people perform their best work. Records were kept of each test employees amount of sleep, diet, attendance, comments, physical examinations, and earnings. The temperature...
Two documents, both of which concern illumination studies, are presented. The first is a report on the illumination study at Hawthorne, which began Nov. 24, 1924 and ended April 30, 1927. In this study, candles of various lengths were introduced...
Included are graphs, tables, charts, and various notes on speed tests done to find a correlation between hours of sleep and speed in relay assembly. The tests were conducted on four of the operators in the relay assembly test room in 1930. The...
April 13, 1931, G.A. Pennock sent C.W. Bergquist a report titled: An Account of the Work of the Industrial Research Division. The Industrial Research Division was established in January, 1929 to centralize the test room study, the employee...
Several reports, memoranda, and letters. It includes two copies of a preliminary report concerning the experiment in personnel counseling by which Personnel Man would interview employees and supervisors in an attempt to find problems in his...
Does insensitivity underlie continuing discrimination against women; The changing population characteristics ; Why Nordstrom's must fail; Who are the market-value leaders in retailing?; Policies on figts to employees; Short shorts; The 1984...
Why draw any salary in 1987?; How many does a house hold?; Additional information on Mervyn’s; Have vs. the have not : retail style; Great recapitalization game; Financial characteristics of high-income families; Your name is for sale!; Does a...
I still think what Hechinger did was right; Can minnows live with whales?; Did you know that February is Black History Month?; It makes me wonder about GAAP and CPA’s [generally accepted accounting principles]; Which ad appeals to you most?;...
Imagine paying a retail CEO $1,000,000 a year to do this!; The cure for present dishonest pricing; Tiffany; Liars, damned liars and statisticians; I wonder what reports by impact resources tell us?; Maintaining stupidity of banks; And they expect...
Does your employment rejection letter help your image?; Vol. 25, no. 1; A new definition of 'free'; If you had been there, this is what you'd heard; Why I like California; Short shorts; Is this why department stores are failing?; A quick look at...
Is Consumers Union less ethical than department stores?; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; Phony patriotism; Where did the trees go?; Who should you thank?; May D&F v. The State of Colorado -- and it loses; Short shorts Bias' is a synonym...
Should I be reading this kind of story about Penney’s?; National advertising division of The Better Business Bureau; The headline I have been waiting for: ‘Sears to spend $4 Billion to revamp stores’; What I have learned in 60 years of...