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...
Three documents, two letters and one detailed report. First, Elton Mayos letter to G.A. Pennock dated February 9, 1931, concerning the status of the Western Electric experiments and the importance of studying how fatigue, morale, preoccupation...
Three memoranda concerning personnel counselor selection, two of which touch on the issue of their training. The earliest memorandum from 1941 is a brief list of desirable characteristics for a counselor to have while the 1948 memorandum is a...
Report listing the seven qualities that each counselor should possess. Those qualities were: integrity, job interest, social skills, capacity for growth, initiative, intelligence, and appearance. These attributes would be used in the future to...