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Executive Summary
The historic ‘Hawthorne Studies’ have played a pivotal role in influencing the field of Organisational Behaviour as we know it today. Although some scholars have attacked the findings made by Elton Mayo and associates, it is vital to identify that it is not so much the research that was collected from the Hawthorne Studies, but what spawned from its findings. ... 41) states, “the studies are now famous for identifying the importance of social needs in the workplace and the way work groups can satisfy these needs.” This statement shows what influence the Hawthorne Studies have had on Organisational Behaviour as it is can be seen as the turning point when theorists and managers stopped identifying workers as machines and started treating them as human beings in order to increase motivation and production.
Through the use of the information collected from the studies, theorists identified the value of social groups within an organisation. ...
The Hawthorne Studies led to Human Relations Movement. ...
The Hawthorne Studies, which took place at the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company, have played a pivotal role in influencing the field of Organisational Behaviour as we know it today. ... 718) stated that although some scholars have made attacks on the “procedures, analysis of findings and the conclusions they drew”, it is important to understand that the influence the studies have today are not for their initial research value. It is more to do with the theories and ideas that spawned from the studies.
Approximate Word count = 1199
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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