The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924-1933)
September 17, 2007 – January 17, 2008
Historical Collections
North Lobby, Baker Library
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA
In the 1920s Elton Mayo, a professor of Industrial Management at Harvard Business School, and his protégé Fritz J. Roethlisberger led a landmark study of worker behavior at Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T. Unprecedented in scale and scope, the nine-year study took place at the massive Hawthorne Works plant outside of Chicago and generated a mountain of documents, from hourly performance charts to interviews with thousands of employees. Harvard Business School's role in the experiments represented a milestone in the dawn of the human relations movement.
The exhibition is available on-line at:
http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/hawthorne/
An exhibition catalog is available upon request at
histcollref@hbs.edu.
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