Management and the worker
Subtitle: an account of a research program conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago
By: by F.J. Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson ; with the assistance and collaboration of Harold A. Wright.
Contributors: Dickson, W. J. 1904-; Wright, Harold A.; Pforzheimer, Carl Howard, 1879-1957, former owner.; Western Electric Company.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Harvard university press
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
Subjects: Personnel management; Psychology, Industrial; Research, Industrial
Notes: "About twelve years ago the Western Electric Company, at its Hawthorne plant, began the series of inquiries into the human effect of work and working conditions described in this book ... This book offers for the first time a continuous history of the entire series"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Working conditions and employee efficiency; title: A plan for the improvement of employee relations; title: A conceptual scheme for the understanding of employee dissatisfaction; title: Social organization of employees; title: Applications to practice of research results.