Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
The Hawthorne experiments belong to the era of:
AMid 1930's
BLate 1930's
CEarly 1920's
DLate 1920's ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Late 1920's — The Hawthorne experiments belong to the late 1920's, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The Hawthorne experiments belong to the late 1920's, so that is the answer.
★They were carried out at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company near Chicago.
★The main studies were led by Elton Mayo and his colleagues.
★They began with illumination tests and moved on to the relay assembly and interview studies in the late 1920's.
★They showed that social factors and attention raised output more than physical conditions alone.
★This finding gave birth to the human relations school of organisation.
★Hence the experiments are dated to the late 1920's, extending into the early 1930's.
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