Fritz Roethlisberger
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- Social Scientist, Management Theorist
- Former professor at Harvard Business School
- authored Management and the Worker (voted as the 10th most influential management book)
- One of the key contributor of the Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne Effect
- The Hawthorne studies were conducted with the workers at the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company by Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger in the 1920s. The Hawthorne studies were a part of an emphasis on socio-psychological aspects of human behaviors in organizations.
- Researchers from the Hawthorne studies hypothesized that choosing one's own coworkers, working as a group, being treated as special (as evidenced by working in a separate room), and having a sympathetic supervisor were the reasons for increases in worker productivity.
- The Hawthorne studies found that monetary incentives and good working conditions are generally less important in improving employee productivity than the individual need and desire to belong to a group and be included in decision making and work.