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,...
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.
Three-year attendance reports of 5 mica test operators recorded in tables. Comparisons are shown between one year in the regular department and two years in the test room
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...
Text of two interviews of two employees, just as they were leaving after being laid off. They both feel they were treated fairly regarding the layoff and both would like to return when times are better. The second interviewee complains about his...
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...
Correspondence: Erle F. Cress to Paul Cress, regarding the diary of Charles Kroff and its significance as a record of the U.S. Civil War. September 27, 1956.
Report showing data and findings pertinent to a shorter work week using three sources: (1) the relay assembly test room studies, (2) interviews with employees, and (3) supervisory training conferences
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 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...
Documents explaining the interviewing process that was initially used for the Hawthorne Study and then documents administrative discussions as to how effective this process was and identified areas that could be revised to make it more effective...
Counseling record, entitled: Counseling in a group situation, by Phyllis Dodds. It contains detailed descriptions about the interviews, conversations, observations, as well as counselors own impressions, feelings, etc. which happened during the...
Comments made by the six test subjects in the relay assembly test room from 1927-1930. The comments are sorted into six categories: rest periods, hours, holidays and vacations; production, earnings, repairs and type; supervision and test room...
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...