• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments

Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments

Paperback

Series: Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth

EconomicsManagement20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0521456436
ISBN13: 9780521456432
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28 1993
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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 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.

Also in

20th Century United States History