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...
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
Typewritten report by R. D. Gross written in July 1931. This paper discusses the different experiments conducted at Hawthorne, some of the resulting data that was collected, and analyzes how it might be used.
Typewritten research report which presents background information on the company and how it is viewed by the community, analyzes the data collected about personnel counseling, and provides discussion about what impact this study will have on the...
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...
Collection of miscellaneous documents, both typewritten and handwritten, pertaining to the Hawthorne project and the results obtained from the study. Based on data collected from 1928-1940. Included are transcripts of speeches, summary documents...
Two page form/questionnaire used for personal data collection and observation. A narrative case history for each of the 5 mica splitting operators follows. The case histories give marital status and age. There is a discussion of living...
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,...
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,...
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...
Interview method, analysis, and development of training began in the Inspection Branch, moved to the Operating Branch, and in January 1930 throughout the Works. A December 1929 pamphlet titled A Plan for Improving Employee Relations was printed. ...
Robert Kahn, P.M.C.; California property tax; The image of business; Advertising and the F.T.C.; In defense of pipe smoking; BankAmericard gives out their figures; Preparing property tax returns; The future in health plans; A new attack on service...
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...
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...
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...
Military post. A letterbook (1869-1878) containing copies of letters sent; lists of names of captured Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians; data relating to their provisioning and outfitting; and reports on hostile bands kept by the commissary supply...
Professor. Photocopies of field notes (1933) compiled by Fred Eggan during his studies of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian kinship, bands, societies, marriage, genealogy, ceremonies, child care, and social customs; U.S. census coding sheets (1880,...
Geography professor. Research notes and township maps (ca. 1937) of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, on which Hewes plotted the following data: which groups (categorized by degree of Indian blood, intermarried citizens, or freedmen) settled which...