Various speeches and presentations regarding the experiment in the Inspection Branch. The original study was to see the effect of lighting on the operators, which was found to be negligible. What they did find is that the production in the test...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Report on the attitude of laid off workers early in 1930. It contains summary of the employees opinions and snippets from their interviews that express the majority opinion. They were asked about work conditions, supervisors and the fairness of...
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
Record of observations of the relay assembly test room operations. Conversations of the workers were recorded in detail. Also recorded were observations of their moods, in handwritten marginalia
Record of observations of the relay assembly test room operations. Conversations of the workers were recorded in detail. Also included are observations of their moods in handwritten marginalia. During this period, several workers were informed...
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.
Interviews with the relay assembly test room operators to find out why there was low inspection efficiency. The observer concluded that talking did not delay production, but probably decreased concentration. The group had the tendency to go fast...
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...
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...
Detailed procedures for establishing the bank wiring test room, and selection criteria for the male workers in the test room group. Three reports on the subject of engineering study of human fatigue are included
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...
Background on reasons for workers to restrict their output instead of working at maximum efficiency. Group solidarity is listed as the key reason, as well as the workers personality. The memorandum also states there is no correlation between a...
53 pages of specific menus. They list what the 5 workers in the relay assembly test room ate for breakfast, lunch and supper. The date range is August, 1927 to December, 1927.
The Great Northern Railway encompassed several railway companies, including the St. Paul and Pacific Railway Company and the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company, by way of owning the majority of stock. After financial problems, the Northern...
The Northern Pacific Railway company was the first railroad to run through the northern tier of states, connecting Lake Superior to Puget Sound. Its contruction began with an estimated forty-seven to sixty million acres of land grants from the...
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...
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...
Federal project. Book-length manuscripts, research and project reports (1937-1941) and administrative records (1937-1941) generated by the WPA Historic Sites and Federal Writers' projects for Oklahoma during the 1930s. Arranged by county and by...
Achievement, business achievement, investigation of businesses, investigation of financing proposals, use of industrial psychology as a management tool
Minister. Publications (1907-1940), including The Christian Workers Magazine, booklets produced by the American Friends (Quakers) regarding an African mission and national service efforts, and one textbook used at the Friends Hillside Mission in...
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature
A satire on Utilitarianism set in a provincial industrial town, portraying the dreariness of life for industrial workers, the hopelessness of decent people trapped in a failed marriage, and the fallacy of mechanical theories of human nature