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George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist, [1] [2] [3] industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.
Elton Mayo (born Dec. 26, 1880, Adelaide, Australia—died Sept. 7, 1949, Polesden Lacey, Surrey, Eng.) was an Australian-born psychologist who became an early leader in the field of industrial sociology in the United States, emphasizing the dependence of productivity on small-group unity.
Aug 29, 2021 · Elton Mayo is widely viewed as the father of human relations theory and modern HR, owing to the popularity of the Human Relations principles demonstrated in research projects like the Hawthorne Experiments.
Elton Mayo and his associates conducted their studies in the Hawthorne plant of the western electrical company, U.S.A., between 1927 and 1930. According to them, behavioral science methods have many areas of application in management.
Elton Mayo's experiments into workplace motivation at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s found an unexpected result, now known as the Hawthorne Effect.
Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1880. Affable, witty, and a brilliant lecturer, he taught mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland, where he conducted psycho-pathological tests on World War I shell-shock victims.
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 ...
