Hawthorne Studies: The Study Of Western Electric Work

In Hawthorne’s detailed observation about Abraham Lincoln, he emphasizes his appreciation for the president, whom he calls the “man of men.” In 1862, Hawthorne was able to meet and observe Lincoln with a group of whip manufacturers. Hawthorne adds the implication of being “truly mortified” if he would have left Washington without seeing Lincoln. He illustrates his attitude by repeating positive and precise vocabulary and juxtaposing Lincoln’s outer and inner qualities.

He expects that automations will similarly replace the 70 percent of current employments by the end of this century. He thinks this second wave of automation will affect not only manual labor but also knowledge workers. He predicts that this replacement will start from the already-automated fields in industries. Then

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The traditional popular belief that increasing output of an organization was directly related to increasing workers’ wages was disproved. Experiments conducted by Mayo proved that there were more than economic factors that improved efficiency. Consequently, human relations were a key component to improve organizational output as evidenced from tests conducted.

Women in today’s world use many scientific measures to look young, beautiful, and perfect. Some women even undergo surgeries to perfect their bodies. True natural beauty comes from within one’s self and not what is on the outside. While critics argue that Hawthorne’s “The Birth Mark,” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” and “Rappaccinni’s Daughter” stand as an overt commentary on nature vs. science, Hawthorne actually uses these works to explore personal familial connections.

2) Choose one of the social judgements that Hawthorne is exploring in the novel either through narrative or through characterization. What statements about human nature does Hawthorne explore? What is his message?

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Hawthorne’s purpose and message in this passage is primarily to convey the aftermath of war in Salem. His message is that this isn’t how a port should be, very maltreated and neglected by her own people. Which is seen through the downhill of the infrastructure and an apathetic attitude by the people who used the ports. The damage on infrastructure is seen in “Has not of late days..been multitudinous of business” “scorned by her own who permit her to crumble… to ruin”

2. True or False? A main discovery of the Hawthorne Studies was that human factors are at least as important to motivation as pay rates.

At the rate that machines and technology are improving, most people will not have to have jobs. There will still need to be some human supervision of everyday production of machines. There will also have to be maintenance when a machine breaks, and that requires a trained human. People will also have to have jobs in programming these machines, as they cannot program themselves. Machines will eventually eliminate most people’s jobs, however, there will always be a small portion of people required to supervise them.

Hawthorne's demeanour, along with the atmosphere in the room had changed the moment Harper discovered the X on the wall, and the implements that lay beside it on the board. From the moment she'd arrived at the Manor, he'd resisted his own arousal, and attempted to gauge, internally, how far Harper would go, or what her fantasies entailed. Her reaction, which demonstrated surprise and curiosity, to him, rather shock of fear, had eased any concerns that she'd flee, as reality hit. Harper Collin's seemed to relish what she'd discovered, and that only increased his desire to ravage her like the dirty, little slut he'd promised.

George Elton Mayo is credited with founding the human relations movement. Mayo conducted an experiment in the 1920’s and 1930’s know as the Hawthorne study. Two of the main aspects of the study centered around illumination in the work place and varying levels of break time and work hours (Wickström, 2000). The illumination study consisted of four different experiments over the course of three years. In each experiement, there was a control group and a study group. In the varying studies, the researchers experimented with varying levels of light and varying sequences of increasing and decreasing the level of light (“Hawthorne effect”). Throughout the experiments, researchers would often find patterns of increased productivity, leading them to believe that they had

Although his theories are now considered mechanistic and outdated, Weber's views on bureaucracy provided important insight into efficiency, division of labor, and the hierarchy of authority. Post industrial revolutionary America began to adopt a less mechanical view of organizations and to pay more attention to human influences. The notable Hawthorne experiments shed light on the function of human fulfillment in organizations and were conducted in the mid 1920s and 1930s at a Western Electric Company plant known as the Hawthorne Works. The company wanted to determine the degree to which working conditions affected output.

This can be linked to Wren and Bedeian’s (2009) conclusions drawn from the Hawthorne Studies, they conclude that these experiments showed us that workers were not driven only by money but also by social factors which can lead to increased and decreased productivity.