Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments

by Richard Gillespie

Book Overview

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 behavioral sciences. Drawing on the original records of the experiments and the personal papers of the researchers, Richard Gillespie has reconstructed the intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521456436
• ISBN13: 9780521456432
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"