Manufacturing Knowledge - A History of the Hawthorne Experiments

Klappentext What motivates workers to work harder? What can management do to create a contented and productive workforce? Discussion of these questions would be incomplete without reference to the Hawthorne experiments! one of the most famous pieces of research ever conducted in the social and behavioural sciences. Drawing on the original records of the experiments and the personal papers of the researchers! Richard Gillespie has reconstructed the intellectual and political dynamics of the experiments as they evolved from the tentative experimentation to seemingly authoritative publications. Manufacturing Knowledge raises fundamental questions about the nature of scientific knowledge! and about the assumptions and evidence that underlay debates on worker productivity. Zusammenfassung Richard Gillespie raises fundamental questions about the nature of scientific knowledge! and about the assumptions and evidence that underpin debates about worker productivity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' preface; Glossary of manuscript collections; Introduction; 1. The management of work; 2. The T room; 3. Interpreting the relay test; 4. Elton Mayo and the research network; 5. The psychopathology of industrial life; 6. The anthropology of work; 7. Manufacturing the Hawthorne experiments; 8. Human relations in industry; 9. Human relations in the social sciences; Conclusion: manufacturing knowledge; Acknowledgements; Bibliography of the Hawthorne experiments; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Gillespie
• Con la collaborazione di: Louis Galambos (Editore), Robert Gallmam (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.05.1993
• EAN: 9780521456432
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45643-2
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Srhp; Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology