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Dictionary of sociology. 2013.
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Hawthorne studies — Research conducted in the 1920s and 1930s at the Western Electric Company s Hawthorne plant in Chicago. The programme set out to explore the effects of physical working conditions on employee productivity but became known more for its major… … Big dictionary of business and management
Hawthorne studies — The experiments which inspired Elton Mayo and others to develop the Human Relations Movement . From 1924 the Western Electric Company of Chicago, influenced by scientific management theories, measured the impact of different working conditions… … Dictionary of sociology
Hawthorne — studies … Dictionary of sociology
Hawthorne effect — The Hawthorne effect is a form of reactivity whereby subjects improve or modify an aspect of their behavior being experimentally measured simply in response to the fact that they know they are being studied,[1][2] not in response to any… … Wikipedia
Hawthorne research — ▪ socioeconomics also called Hawthorne effect socioeconomic experiments conducted by Elton Mayo (Mayo, Elton) in 1927 among employees of the Hawthorne Works factory of the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois. For almost a year, a … Universalium
Hawthorne-Effekt — Der Hawthorne Effekt ist ein Phänomen der gruppenbasierten Beobachtungsstudien, das in den 1920er Jahren bei Experimenten in den Hawthorne Werken (Illinois, USA) entdeckt wurde. Er besagt, dass die Teilnehmer einer Studie ihr natürliches… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hawthorne effect — ☆ Hawthorne effect n. [after the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Co. in Cicero, Ill., where studies of worker performance were made in 1927] improvement in performance, as by workers or students, resulting from mere awareness that… … English World dictionary
Hawthorne Works — The Hawthorne Works, in Cicero, Illinois, was a large factory complex built by Western Electric starting in 1905 and operating until 1983. It had 45,000 employees at the height of its operations. Besides telephone equipment, the factory produced… … Wikipedia
Hawthorne effect — /ˈhɔθɔn əfɛkt/ (say hawthawn uhfekt) noun the theoretical phenomenon of increase in worker productivity being less greatly promoted by changes to individual working environments, office procedures, etc., than by greater degrees of communication… …
Studies — Study Stud y, n.; pl. {Studies}. [OE. studie, L. studium, akin to studere to study; possibly akin to Gr. ? haste, zeal, ? to hasten; cf. OF. estudie, estude, F. [ e]tude. Cf. {Etude}, {Student}, {Studio}, {Study}, v. i.] 1. A setting of the mind… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
