HBS Leaders on HBS
The Significance of Hawthorne
Interview clip with HBS faculty member Abraham Zaleznik who speaks about the importance of the research conducted by Prof. Elton Mayo and Prof. Fritz Roethlisberger at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works and their findings in relation to worker productivity, group structure, the subjects' transference reaction to the researchers, organizational behavior, and industrial psychology.
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