HR Digest

JULY 22, 2022

Have you heard about the Hawthorne effect before? The Hawthorne effect is a term used to describe the improvement in employees’ productivity that lasts temporarily. We’ll discuss all there is to know about the Hawthorne effect, the Hawthorne experiment, and how Hawthorne studies human resource management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

This was seen in a study called the Hawthorne Effect , which was run by Elton Mayo at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works factory, outside of Chicago, IL, in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of workplace conditions on individual productivity.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 2, 2020

As such, they conducted their work in a real office environment rather than the lab. “To ameliorate such situations, we decided it essential to verify and provide scientific evidence for the stress restorative effect by nearby plants in a real office setting.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The “Hawthorne effect,” as it is now known, has been well-documented in social science : individuals, typically research subjects, actively change their behavior when they know they are being observed and monitored. Creating more quiet work spaces that facilitate focus on clinical tasks may also be effective.

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