The Great Northern Railway Papers Finding Aid Prepared By Maura L. Valentino Bass Business Collection University of Oklahoma Libraries Norman, OK 2010 Finding aid encoded by University of Oklahoma Libraries 2010 Finding aid written in English....
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...
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...
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...
Duplicates Progress Report No. 1 and 2 with the addition of a health questionnaire, notes on the physical examinations of each of the test employees, and a discussion about output increases when work shortened to 4:00 p.m. and then returned to 5:00...
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...
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...
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...
Summary of weekly activity in the relay assembly test room from the time period August 8 through December 26, 1931. Production curve and other data fluctuations are covered and explained, as well as any personal or environmental effects on the test...
Case histories of the five operators and layout operators of the relay assembly test room. The histories are forms covering the test subjects family connections, personal qualities, home and community environment, and work history. Following these...
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...
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...
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...
Five interviews with the mica-splitting test room operators. The interview covered attitudes about the company and the test room. Family life and outside interests were also discussed
Transcripts of interviews with supervisors regarding the employee interview process, working conditions and supervisor training. Also included are newspaper clippings pertaining to new management and layoffs. Some handwritten notes are included as...
Documents regarding creating a mathematical method for determining the tone of the interview by creating a ratio of negative to positive comments. Also included are charts analyzing interviews in groups of 100.
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...
Seven typewritten research reports that were written using the data collected during the Hawthorne study. The papers look at interviewing techniques in general as well as specific examples from the study. It also discusses and outlines their...
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...
Correspondence both handwritten and typed, text drafts, and other materials pertaining to the book which was being written by F.J. Roethlisberger and W.J. Dixon and also their monograph titled Management and the Worker which was based on data...
Tables from a 1928 study that was started to test the length of time needed to gain efficiency in mica splitting. The weekly average output of 34 experienced operators was used as the standard. Fifty-two inexperienced operators were studied. ...
Report concerning the employee interview program conducted by Hawthorne Works Inspection Branch. Included are the plans for the study with purpose and procedure. Also contained is a summary outline, and interviews with representative employees...
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 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...
Records regarding mica-splitting operator 1. Informal notes and recommendations, both hand written and type written, concerning this operator are included. Also included is a summary of absences is given for the entire period of employment from...
Records regarding mica-splitting operator fives performance. Included are a formal summary, a list of comments, and a log of favorable and unfavorable comments. The favorable and unfavorable comment log is for the period from 1928 to 1930. Also...
Summary of why layoffs had to occur and how employees were chosen for layoff. Also included are the employee and supervisor comments regarding the layoffs
Report describing multiple cases where the counselor was able to interview employees who were undergoing stressful situations, some of a personal nature, some related to their jobs, and how the counselor was able to lessen tensions and enable the...
Letters written both before and after a Personnel Counseling Conference held January 24-25, 1961, in New York City that included representatives from numerous branches of American Telephone & Telegraph Company. After the conference, the...
Study of a counselors work. It lists numerous employees, their problems, results from speaking with the counselor, whether they improved as a result of counseling, and their supervisors feelings about their improvement. It also lists employees who...
Report about supervisor difficulties. There are reports from both the supervisor and the counselor. A line supervisor reported several conversations with group members and with the counselor. His report includes his observation of positive...
C.E. Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology and Public Health wrote G.A. Pennock and M.L. Putnam. The letters discuss testing causes for increased output, analyzing output by 15 minute intervals, testing vascular skin...
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,...
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...
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...
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 of committee appointed to investigate the report of the Superintendent of Public Schools, also the proposed resolution to instruct to principal Chief to appoint two persons to examine the accounts etc...of the schools in Spuckchunubbee...
A report showing that the report of Forbis LeFlore, Superintendent of Public Schools, has been examined; that the superintendent of the New Hope Seminary has drawn $5000.00; that the report of Edmund McCurtain, trustee of Mosshoatubbee, has been...
An act prohibiting Indian or Citizens of the Choctaw or Chickasaw from hunting, trapping, or destroying game. It also tells what the penalty will be. Approved Nov. 9, 1875.
Report to Senate and House. Also recommendations to appoint a Special Law Committee to take care of the problems which may arise. Passed Senate October 11, 1876 and approved October 12, 1876.
An act regulating the time and manner of sheriffs making reports to their respective County treasurers for other purposes also. Passed and approved April 8, 1891.
Bill No. 48. An act repealing and employing and also appointing S. Guerrier, Special Agent and Attorney for the Choctaw Nation. Passed and approved October 28, 1898.
An act conferring citizenship in the Choctaw Nation upon James and Walton Patterson, and their families also Babe Thompson. Passed and approved November 6, 1884.
Notification from G.W. Dukes, Principal Chief to members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Choctaw Nation in General Council Assembled, concerning the amount to be paid per mile for railway right-of-ways. Also two letters from W.A....
Bill No. 49. An act declining to accept the report of S.H. Woods, National Auditor, for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1901, and also authorizing the National Treasurer to make demands on S.H. Woods for the amount of $13,153.26 and to report...
Bill No. 24. An act for the relief of Richard Crowder and others. Passed and approved November 16, 1905. Approved by T. Roosevelt January 18, 1906. Also a letter from Wright to Wilson on same bill.