9: Summary of Episode 9 on Hawthorne Studies
Talking About Organizations Podcast
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The Social Dynamics of the Industrialization Era
Mayo's work can be seen as the birth of empirical research into organizations. The author emphasizes how cooperation is not automatic, but what is needed is a greater understanding of what motivates people socially. All these studies take a very scientific and deterministic approach to the problem by man plating various factors which are deemed to contribute to workers comfort.
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