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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bill No. 34. Proposed act to provide for better collection of royalties. Passed Senate with amendment October 30, 1885. Passed House and approved with amendment November 2, 1885.
Also applaud federated department stores; The 1982 outlook; Free enterprise; A great moment in retailing; Dangerous use of numbers; Abuse of numbers; Pray for Gimbel's; [A statistical supplement]; Surprise in numbers!; Why westerns pick a...
The gentle art of stealing; The joy of giving; The gentle art of honest (?) advertising; Will all small shipments go pre-paid?; Women's lib; The computer world -- who controls it?; Credit Office rating;Measuring store image; Advertise; Will you...
Arch Patton agrees with RT!; Banking and retailing — separated by a plastic card; Must retail chief executive officers operate by lying?; How serious is employee theft?; Does your firm get the Nilson Report?; The 1983 outlook; Credit Office...
Does insensitivity underlie continuing discrimination against women; The changing population characteristics ; Why Nordstrom's must fail; Who are the market-value leaders in retailing?; Policies on figts to employees; Short shorts; The 1984...
How do you classify The Broadway?;Thanks to TRW for words we should never forget; Corporations have had it too good under the tax law; Speaking of households and families; Do we have a 5-year plan for us, the society?; Circle K operates with little...
What About Sunday Openings?; Leased Equipment and Property Taxes; The F.T.C. and Inducing Discriminatory Allowances; The Ethics of Data Accumulation—Revisited; What Attracts a Clerical Worker?; Constitutional Rights When There is a Citizen's...
Re-inventing the wheel, IRS in power grab; Private matter becomes public; Price as an indicator of quality; Credit office rating; Productivity increase? Not much in department stores; Selling EDP packages that steal, Integrity, Newsweek style,...
What does "M.O.R." mean?; Alexander's cares for their employees; The story fairchild won't publish; Logic (?) in credit; National advertising, national brands and the changing pattern; Credit Office rating; California grocers and...
The outlook for 1975; Should you use LIFO?; Statistical Supplement: Credit Office rating; The market for retail stocks; Concern about jobs causes unemployment?; Why consumerism becomes more aggressive; Around the circle again--with games; How well...
Trouble ahead for ESOTs; A matter of ethics (JC Penney past due accounts); The recession - we did it to ourselves; How EFTs will cut retail sales; Department store complacency; Names in the F.T.C.; Statistical Supplement: Credit Office rating;...
Alice in Wonderland at Wells Fargo Bank; Panic Prevails at Saks 5th Avenue; Selective Distribution Approved in Common Market; High Profits for Federated Department Stores; Questioning the National Crime Information Center; Why Business Gets a Bad...
Do You Use Ringers?; Porno in Retail Advertising; Maintaining an Image; Effective Corporate Tax Rates; Laughing All the Way to the Bank; What Special Executive Ability Creates a High Return on Equity?; Concealing Information from Stockholders; Big...
Errata; Forecast; Good Friends; The 5% Givers Club; Personnel Policies Can Save; Many Barrels of Oil; Operating Systems vs Management Systems; Do You Exchange Lists of People Who Cash Bad Checks?; Supporting the National Foundation for; Consumer...
Fire-when not ready, Gridley; How does one define service?; 1981 corporate resolutions; I have discovered the most stupid retailers in the world; What is a conservative? What is a liberal?; At last--many stocks are selling for close to book value!;...
I still think what Hechinger did was right; Can minnows live with whales?; Did you know that February is Black History Month?; It makes me wonder about GAAP and CPA’s [generally accepted accounting principles]; Which ad appeals to you most?;...
Imagine paying a retail CEO $1,000,000 a year to do this!; The cure for present dishonest pricing; Tiffany; Liars, damned liars and statisticians; I wonder what reports by impact resources tell us?; Maintaining stupidity of banks; And they expect...
Does your employment rejection letter help your image?; Vol. 25, no. 1; A new definition of 'free'; If you had been there, this is what you'd heard; Why I like California; Short shorts; Is this why department stores are failing?; A quick look at...
Is Consumers Union less ethical than department stores?; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; Phony patriotism; Where did the trees go?; Who should you thank?; May D&F v. The State of Colorado -- and it loses; Short shorts Bias' is a synonym...
Why retailers should worry about literacy; Ethics in business -- and in business school; Should you charge for parking?; No wonder retailers go broke; Short shorts; The decision makes 'cents'; When looking at the same thing, do we each see...
Can we retailers be proud of this?; Should you have an ombudsman?; Job stealing -- the American way; When it comes to service, the boss is not always right; My reaction to published studies; Who spends how much on advertising?; Does a deceptive...
How goest the Christmas season?; What has happened to Christmas?; Bad practices in strange places; 27 Attorneys General and the FTC settle with May department stores; Retailers are going broke because they don't understand English; A secret to...
Should I be reading this kind of story about Penney’s?; National advertising division of The Better Business Bureau; The headline I have been waiting for: ‘Sears to spend $4 Billion to revamp stores’; What I have learned in 60 years of...
Farmer. A letter (1898), with typescript copies, by James M. Latty of Muskogee, Indian Territory, to his brother in Idaho, describing his intention to move west so that his children would receive a better education. Latty lived in the Creek Nation.