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Hawthorne effect |
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Hawthorne effect n (Sociology) improvement in the performance of employees, students, etc., brought about by making changes in working methods, resulting from research into means of improving performance Compare iatrogenic, placebo effect [from the Western Electric Company's Hawthorne works in Chicago, USA, where it was discovered during experiments in the 1920s] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| He will shower those clusters with money and attention and will probably achieve a measure of success, if only as a result of the Hawthorne effect, named for the 1924 study of factory conditions that found that attention from management per se was enough to increase productivity. If you could sustain a Hawthorne effect for an indefinite period of time, you would be in good shape, but we can't seem to do it. Most managers know about the Hawthorne Effect and have studied it in college or a management class. |
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