Container List Container Contents Board of Directors' Minutes and Corporate Histories I Historical Sketches and Company Minutes Scope and Content Note Contains Historic Sketches, minutes and notes from both the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company...
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...
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...
Documents include comments from supervisors returning to their jobs after a year of interviewing employees and the different ways they handled employees and various incidents.
Two reports, one by Mr. Lovekin and one by Mr. Roethlisberger regarding their interviewing of the supervisors. Mr. Lovekins report divided by topics that the men discussed and then analyzed by percentage that felt one way or the other on each...
Substance analysis of employee comments on various subjects taken from 10,300 operating branch interviews. Each subject is listed in a table, with numbers for the total comments analyzed, favorable comments, favorable thought spread, unfavorable...
Report addressing the work of a counselor during the three month period of January through March, 1943. It stated what she did on a daily basis and showed how her work was valuable to the company by increasing employee morale, providing proof...
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,...
The reports of the experiments at the Hawthorne Plant generated a great deal of interest. Directors of various companies requested further information for use in their company. Several university professors requested information for use in their...
Correspondence: Erle F. Cress to Paul Cress, regarding various battles of the U.S. Civil War, especially those related by the Kroff diary, including the capture of Corinth and the Battle of Shiloh. October 4, 1956.
Bill No. 26. The Principal Chief is authorized to communicate with said prisoners in the various United States prisons to the end that said prisoners may select suitable persons to represent them in the selection of their allotments and in drawing...
A memorial to the various religious and temperance organizations of the U.S. Passed Senate October 22, 1903. Passed House and approved October 24, 1903.