Schedule of test periods for the first relay assembly test room, including piece rates and converstion factors for relays assembled in the relay assembly test room.
Sample and completed questionnaires by the test room employees. Questions deal with aspects of the employees personal lives like habits, attitudes, health, and goals along with questions about their feelings toward their work and participation in...
Report written by Imogene Rousseau in February 1931. This report was based on the interviews that were conducted with twelve female operators who worked in the Landing Coil Department
Report on the quality of production by the relay assembly test room operators. A list of the 23 most frequent causes of rejection of relays was made. The inspector recorded each kind of defect, the hour of assembly, and the operator for each...
Report on the interviewing process. Part one discusses how interviewing is a good tool, but the attitude of employees differ among each other and that difference must be taken into account. The second part discusses methods of interviewing and...
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 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...
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
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
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...
Report addressing complaints made in the interviews with operating branch employees. Individual complaints are addressed, and sorted by categories concerning both working conditions and the job itself. Recommendations for further analysis are...
Records of the daily output of 35 experienced mica-splitting operators in the regular department for a 3-year period. The length of service for each regular department operator is given. Regular department total daily hours worked and total daily...
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...
Raw data regarding the effect of rest break variations on the daily output of 5 mica-splitting operators was measured over a 37-week period in 1928. Included are tables of the average accumulated totals, charts of output, and daily output logs for...
Papers on the Hawthorne experiments including, a pamphlet titled Research Studies in Employee Effectiveness and Industrial Relations. The pamphlet contained Test Studies in Industrial Research at Hawthorne by G.A. Pennock, and A Plan for...
Pamphlet summarizing the six years of research at Western Electrics Hawthorne Works. The research began in 1924 with a study of the relationship between light and production. That study showed that research in human relations could not be...