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,...
Three typewritten papers that were presented at the System Personnel Conference that was held in Southern Pines, North Carolina from October 29 through November 2, 1940. The presented papers on personnel relations were based on findings from the...
Report written by Imogene Rousseau in February 1931. This report was based on the interviews that were conducted with twelve female operators who worked in the Landing Coil Department
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...
P-S: Pauls Valley Home Culture Club Ponca City Twentieth Century Club (Mrs. W. A. Baird) World Research Club Pond Creek Study Club Poteau Twentieth Century Study Club Rush Springs MacDowell Club Saint Louis ...
Letters and Telegrams from Clubs - Sectoins H-O: Hammon Federated Club Third District, Oklahoma Federation of Women's Clubs (Mrs. H. M. Parks) Healdton Study Club Hobart Yamparika Club Hollis 1921. Sorosis Club Hugo ...
Letters and Telegrams from Clubs - Sections A-G: Altus Clionian Club Anadarko Philomathic Club (Mrs. G. C. Wamsley) <b> Barnsdall </b> Outlook Study Club (Mrs. E. R. Luiles) <b> Bartlesville </b> Tuesday Club...
Documents include comments from supervisors returning to their jobs after a year of interviewing employees and the different ways they handled employees and various incidents.
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...
Why draw any salary in 1987?; How many does a house hold?; Additional information on Mervyn’s; Have vs. the have not : retail style; Great recapitalization game; Financial characteristics of high-income families; Your name is for sale!; Does a...
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;...
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...
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,...
Not enough retailers are active in NOD; Who will take the next step; Although this was written before Christmas…; A good turn that deserves recognition; Who coined the term "associate"?; Should we accept the conclusions of these...
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...
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...
Ethics at Federated; Giant Stores Revisited; Bringing the F.B.I. under Control; Retailers Love to Gamble; Costly False Advertising; The Risk of Selling Credit Customer Lists; Commercial Bribery; Carter's Token Female as Secretary of Commerce; Do...
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...
And still the shoppers shop!; Are Congressmen really stupid?; What will happen to apparel and general merchandise stores in 1974?; Women are the cause of divorce!; Automated retailing--will it arrive?; When does an industry association move to...
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...
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. ...
Summary of the development and findings of the psychological and sociological studies concerning the relay assembly test group. The report discusses the method used, the findings of the study, the changes introduced, and a prospectus for the future...
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...
Documents explaining the interviewing process that was used for the Hawthorne Study and include instructions on how to conduct the interviews along with the rating scales and evaluation terms to be used in observing and documenting their findings.
Unfinished rough draft that concentrates on determining under what conditions people perform their best work. Records were kept of each test employees amount of sleep, diet, attendance, comments, physical examinations, and earnings. The temperature...
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...
Describes the purpose of the study of the six relay assembly employees as a test to determine if rest periods and rest periods accompanied with shorter working hours improved worker efficiency. The report duplicates Progress Report No. 1 by...
Detailed procedures for establishing the bank wiring test room, and selection criteria for the male workers in the test room group. Three reports on the subject of engineering study of human fatigue are included
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...
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...
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. ...
G. A. Pennocks 1927 introductory address to the six women chosen to participate in the relay assembly work test in which they are told the purpose of the study is to help management resolve some questions. The girls are assured that management is...