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Bibliography

A Selection of Publications by Principal Researchers

Mayo, Elton. The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization. New York: Macmillan, 1933.
Mayo, Elton. The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization. Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1945.
Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson with the assistance of Harold A. Wright. Management and the Worker: an Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.
Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson. Counseling in an Organization: a Sequel to the Hawthorne Researches. Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1966.
Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules. The Elusive Phenomena: an Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1977.
Whitehead, Thomas North. The Industrial Worker: a Statistical Study of Human Relations in a Group of Manual Workers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Secondary Sources

Adams, Stephen B. and Orville R. Butler. Manufacturing the Future: a History of Western Electric. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Bendix, Reinhard and Lloyd H. Fisher. "The Perspectives of Elton Mayo," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 31, no. 4, Nov. 1949, pp. 312-319.

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(valid Harvard ID required).
Brammel, D. and R. Friend. "Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker and Class Bias in Psychology," American Psychologist, no. 36, 1981, pp. 867-878.

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(valid Harvard ID required).
Cass, Eugene Louis and Frederick G. Zimmer, eds. Man and Work in Society: a Report on the Symposium Held on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Original Hawthorne Studies. Oakbrook, Illinois, November 10-13, 1974. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1974.
Copeland, Melvin T. And Mark an Era: the Story of the Harvard Business School. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958.
Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment: the Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.

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(valid Harvard ID required).
Gabor, Andrea. The Capitalist Philosophers: the Geniuses of Modern Business: Their Lives, Times, and Ideas. New York: Random House, 1999.
Gillespie, Richard Pearson. Manufacturing Knowledge: a History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Horvath, Steven M. and Elizabeth C. Horvath. The Harvard Fatigue Laboratory: its History and Contributions. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Landsberger, Henry A. Hawthorne Revisited: Management and the Worker, Its Critics, and Developments in Human Relations in Industry. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1958.
Parsons, J.M. "What Happened at Hawthorne?" Science, vol. 183, March 8, 1974, pp. 922-932.

Full text available as a networked resource
(valid Harvard ID required).
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "Shedding Light on the Hawthorne Studies," Journal of Occupational Behavior, vol. 6, 1985.

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(valid Harvard ID required).
Trahair, Richard C. S. The Humanist Temper: the Life and Work of Elton Mayo. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1984.
Yogev, Ester. "Corporate Hand in Academic Glove: The New Management's Struggle for Academic Recognition —"The Case of the Harvard Group in the 1920s," American Studies International, vol. XXXIX, no. 1, February 2001.

Full text available as a networked resource
(valid Harvard ID required).

Websites

The History of AT&T

www.corp.att.com/history
Hawthorne Works Museum

www.morton.edu/museum/index.html
BBC Radio 4: Mind Changers, Series 4: The Hawthorne Effect, August 2009

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lv0wx

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Bibliography

A Selection of Publications by Principal Researchers

Mayo, Elton. The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization. New York: Macmillan, 1933.

Mayo, Elton. The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization. Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1945.

Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson with the assistance of Harold A. Wright. Management and the Worker: an Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.

Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules and W.J. Dickson. Counseling in an Organization: a Sequel to the Hawthorne Researches. Boston: Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1966.

Roethlisberger, Fritz Jules. The Elusive Phenomena: an Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. Boston: Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1977.

Whitehead, Thomas North. The Industrial Worker: a Statistical Study of Human Relations in a Group of Manual Workers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938.

Secondary Sources

Adams, Stephen B. and Orville R. Butler. Manufacturing the Future: a History of Western Electric. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Bendix, Reinhard and Lloyd H. Fisher. "The Perspectives of Elton Mayo," The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 31, no. 4, Nov. 1949, pp. 312-319.

Brammel, D. and R. Friend. "Hawthorne, the Myth of the Docile Worker and Class Bias in Psychology," American Psychologist, no. 36, 1981, pp. 867-878.

Cass, Eugene Louis and Frederick G. Zimmer, eds. Man and Work in Society: a Report on the Symposium Held on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Original Hawthorne Studies. Oakbrook, Illinois, November 10-13, 1974. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1974.

Copeland, Melvin T. And Mark an Era: the Story of the Harvard Business School. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958.

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment: the Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.

Gabor, Andrea. The Capitalist Philosophers: the Geniuses of Modern Business: Their Lives, Times, and Ideas. New York: Random House, 1999.

Gillespie, Richard Pearson. Manufacturing Knowledge: a History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Horvath, Steven M. and Elizabeth C. Horvath. The Harvard Fatigue Laboratory: its History and Contributions. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Landsberger, Henry A. Hawthorne Revisited: Management and the Worker, Its Critics, and Developments in Human Relations in Industry. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1958.

Parsons, J.M. "What Happened at Hawthorne?" Science, vol. 183, March 8, 1974, pp. 922-932.

Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "Shedding Light on the Hawthorne Studies," Journal of Occupational Behavior, vol. 6, 1985.

Trahair, Richard C. S. The Humanist Temper: the Life and Work of Elton Mayo. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1984.

Yogev, Ester. "Corporate Hand in Academic Glove: The New Management's Struggle for Academic Recognition —"The Case of the Harvard Group in the 1920s," American Studies International, vol. XXXIX, no. 1, February 2001.

Websites

The History of AT&T

Hawthorne Works Museum

BBC Radio 4: Mind Changers, Series 4: The Hawthorne Effect, August 2009