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...
G. A. Pennocks 1927 introductory address to the six women chosen to participate in the relay assembly work test in which they are told the purpose of the study is to help management resolve some questions. The girls are assured that management is...
Included in this group are tables of vascular skin reaction readings as a measurement of fatigue. There is also an abstract of chapter 5, concerning the physiology and psychology of fatigue, from Edgar James Swifts book Psychology and the days...
Case histories of the five operators and layout operators of the relay assembly test room. The histories are forms covering the test subjects family connections, personal qualities, home and community environment, and work history. Following these...
Raw production and earnings data on an hourly basis for assembly group two with information on climate. Tables with weekly and monthy averages are included. Some handwritten notes are included, adding context to the figures.
Case study of a relay assembly test room operator who was taken off the study because of her antagonistic attitude. The change in her behavior could be due to her poor health condition, perhaps anemia. Included are some of her health statistics...
Report and its supplement on the bank wiring test room group. The document reports the progress made in the Bank Wiring Test Room and provides some tangible basis for a critical evaluation of the research program
Transcripts of interviews with supervisors regarding the employee interview process, working conditions and supervisor training. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to new management and layoffs. Some handwritten notes are included as...
Transcripts of interviews with supervisors regarding the employee interview process, working conditions and supervisor training. They took place in 1929. Some handwritten notes are included as marginalia.
Typewritten report by R. D. Gross written in July 1931. This paper discusses the different experiments conducted at Hawthorne, some of the resulting data that was collected, and analyzes how it might be used.
Report compiling data gathered from employee comments on standard hours and steady work during interviews held from 1929-1931. It also includes some information about home conditions which was collected during 1930-1931 and then grouped by mental...
Report describing multiple cases where the counselor was able to interview employees who were undergoing stressful situations, some of a personal nature, some related to their jobs, and how the counselor was able to lessen tensions and enable the...
G.A. Pennock wrote Some Thoughts in Connection with Work in Industrial Research Division. The test room had an outstanding increase in production, due to removal of fear and suspicion on part of employees and increase in morale. This raised the...
Interview method, analysis, and development of training began in the Inspection Branch, moved to the Operating Branch, and in January 1930 throughout the Works. A December 1929 pamphlet titled A Plan for Improving Employee Relations was printed. ...
A letter from J. George Wright, U.S. Indian Inspector, to Green McCurtain, Principal Chief, concerning some legislature for relief of distressed Choctaws. January 14, 1904.
Affidavit of Henry Franklin, regarding the Seminole County seat fight of 1908. September 2, 1908. ""The Airport Proposition,"" by J. Read Moore. n.d. ""A Democratic Call for an Offensive,"" full-size...
The gentle art of stealing; The joy of giving; The gentle art of honest (?) advertising; Will all small shipments go pre-paid?; Women's lib; The computer world -- who controls it?; Credit Office rating;Measuring store image; Advertise; Will you...
Robert Kahn, P.M.C.; California property tax; The image of business; Advertising and the F.T.C.; In defense of pipe smoking; BankAmericard gives out their figures; Preparing property tax returns; The future in health plans; A new attack on service...
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...
How do you classify The Broadway?;Thanks to TRW for words we should never forget; Corporations have had it too good under the tax law; Speaking of households and families; Do we have a 5-year plan for us, the society?; Circle K operates with little...
Re-inventing the wheel, IRS in power grab; Private matter becomes public; Price as an indicator of quality; Credit office rating; Productivity increase? Not much in department stores; Selling EDP packages that steal, Integrity, Newsweek style,...
And still the shoppers shop!; Are Congressmen really stupid?; What will happen to apparel and general merchandise stores in 1974?; Women are the cause of divorce!; Automated retailing--will it arrive?; When does an industry association move to...
Alice in Wonderland at Wells Fargo Bank; Panic Prevails at Saks 5th Avenue; Selective Distribution Approved in Common Market; High Profits for Federated Department Stores; Questioning the National Crime Information Center; Why Business Gets a Bad...
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...
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...
Irresponsibility at AT&T; The high cost of interactive retailing; New Year resolutions worth repeating; Are you surrounded by "yes-men"?; More from great-grandfather Baum's diary; What is your "market value added"?; The...