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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

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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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a paper published in 2009 , Alex Haynes and colleagues examined the use and effectiveness of checklists in eight hospitals in eight cities in the Unites States. following the introduction of checklists.