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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]
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The Hawthorne Experiments began in 1924, Mayo's involvement in them in 1928, after he had moved to the Harvard University School of Business Administration as Associate Professor of Industrial Research.
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The Hawthorne Experiments began in 1924, Mayo's involvement in them in 1928, after he had moved to the Harvard University School of Business Administration as Associate Professor of Industrial Research.
Elton Mayo: the Hawthorne experiments by Thinkers
 
 
 
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