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...
Northern Pacific Railway Company Papers Part I Finding Aid Prepared By Brian C. Shults Bass Business Collection University of Oklahoma Libraries Norman, OK 2010 Finding aid encoded by University of Oklahoma Libraries 2010 Finding aid written in...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Breakdown, by department, of the use of employee comments taken from interviews. The first section describes how comments from employees on plant conditions are used to improve those conditions. There are tables and charts describing the number...
Transcripts of the minutes from an interviewer-training course. Topics include, history of the interview, interview techniques, values of interviewing, and discussion of past interviews.
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,...
Correspondence passed among investigators from September 1928 to February 1934. Letters to G.A. Pennock from Dr. Elton Mayo examined blood pressure, visits, generalizing mind for administration and societal changes; biological measures needs,...
April 13, 1931, G.A. Pennock sent C.W. Bergquist a report titled: An Account of the Work of the Industrial Research Division. The Industrial Research Division was established in January, 1929 to centralize the test room study, the employee...
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...
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...
Two versions of an outline, the latter copy being a revision of the first, directing how to implement a new proposal to evaluate employee/employer relations. A Personnel Man would be introduced to the employees through their supervisor. The...
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...
Kroff enlisted in Company ""F"" of the 11th Indiana Infantry Volunteers on July 12, 1861, at the age of 23. The diary describes his experiences during four years and one month of service: the battles, the news he heard about...