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...
Describes the results of the test began April 25, 1927, concerning the effect of rest periods on the productivity of six girls who performed relay assembly work. These six participants were moved into the test room and their productivity was...
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...
Two documents, both of which concern illumination studies, are presented. The first is a report on the illumination study at Hawthorne, which began Nov. 24, 1924 and ended April 30, 1927. In this study, candles of various lengths were introduced...
G.A. Pennock wrote Some Thoughts in Connection with Work in Industrial Research Division. The test room had an outstanding increase in production, due to removal of fear and suspicion on part of employees and increase in morale. This raised the...
Three memoranda concerning personnel counselor selection, two of which touch on the issue of their training. The earliest memorandum from 1941 is a brief list of desirable characteristics for a counselor to have while the 1948 memorandum is a...
Proposed resolution to pay Benjamin Wesley for services rendered while Sheriff of Atoka County. Passed Senate October 25, 1877. Passed and approved October 26, 1877.
Resolution proposed to appropriate $50.00 to Edmund McCurtain for extra services given while Superintendent of Public Schools. Passed and approved October 16, 1880.
Bill No. 56. Proposed act regulating the appointment of Deputy Sheriffs of Choctaw Nation to attend Circuit Courts, also designating their pay while attending. Passed House November 7, 1885. Passed Senate and approved November 9, 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...
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...
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...
Irresponsibility at AT&T; The high cost of interactive retailing; New Year resolutions worth repeating; Are you surrounded by "yes-men"?; More from great-grandfather Baum's diary; What is your "market value added"?; The...
What percentage of your accounts are active?; One more plea for retailers to join the; EPA's Green Lights program; New Year resolutions -- in three parts; The side of Wal-Mart that the daily and trade press doesn't report; U.S. finances retailer...
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...
Journalist. Folsom family correspondence (1902-1908); a notebook (1897-1899) indicating the subjects studied by Folsom while a student at Atoka Baptist Seminary and Folsom's personal account books (1905-1910). The collection also includes annual...
Indian chief. Typescripts of newspaper articles (1875-1901) regarding McCurtain and his State of the Choctaw Nation speeches (1881-1883) made before the general council while he was principal chief.
Indian chief. Typescripts of letters (1891-1898); speeches (1884-1898); editorials (1896-1906); and biographical accounts (1903-1908), all relating to Isparhecher while a principal chief of the Creek Nation on subjects such as tribal factionalism,...
Collector. Typescripts of articles (1895-1910) and poems (1901-1907) written by the Creek Indian poet Alex Posey. The articles include information on Posey's actions while he was a member of the Dawes Commission, the opposition to allotment by the...
Historian. Essays (1847-1850) written by Sarah Worcester, a daughter of missionaries to the Cherokees, while a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary; unpublished manuscripts (ca. 1950-1960) by Althea Bass, entitled ""The Inheritance of...