The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization

by Elton Mayo

Overview

In this volume Mayo discusses the Hawthorne experiments, relating the findings about human relations within the Hawthorne plant to the social environment in the surrounding Chicago area. The Chicago School of Sociologists were studying aspects of social disorganization and this was a topic pioneered by Emile Durkheim.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415604239
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/10/2010
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Research, Graduate of Business Administration, Harvard University.

Table of Contents

I. Fatigue
II. What is Monotony?
III. The Hawthorne Experiment
IV. Development of the Western Electric Inquiry
V. The Meaning of 'Morale'
VI. The Reaction of Industry upon the Social Order
VII. Theories of Government and the Social Order
VIII. The Problem of the Administrator
Index to Authors
Index to Topics