This is the official account of the experiments carried out at the Hawthorne Works of the Eastern Electric Company in Chicago. These were divided into test room studies, interviewing studies and observational studies. The test room studies were experiments into what variables in a workplace environment might affect worker fatigue. The findings of these tests led to extensive interviewing on the attitudes of the workers. The final phase of the Hawthorne experiment focused on social factors, using techniques of cultural anthropology to observe small working groups. The results of these experiments profoundly influenced the Human Relations movement.

    Part I

    I. Introduction
    II. Planning the Relay Assembly Test Room
    III. Experiment with Rest Pauses
    IV. Experiment with Shorter Working Days and Weeks
    V. Testing the Fatigue and Monotony Hypotheses
    VI. Testing the Effects of Wage Incentive; the Second Relay Assembly Group and the Mica Splitting Test Room
    VII. The Test Room Operators; their Individual Differences and Interpersonal Relations
    VIII. The Relay Assembly Test Room Supervision

    Part II

    IX. The Growth and Development of the Interviewing Program
    X. The Practical Operation of the Plan; the Training of Supervisors and the Investigation of Complaints
    XI. The Urgency and Tone of Industrial Topics

    Part III

    XII. The Analysis of Complaints; Fact vs. Sentiment
    XIII. The Interviewing Method
    XIV. Complaints and Personal Equilibrium
    XV. Attitudes within the Supervisory Organization
    XVI. Complaints and Social Equilibrium

    Part IV

    XVII. Method and Procedure in Studying a Shop Department
    XVIII. The Output Situation in the Bank Wiring Observation Room
    XIX. The Supervisory Situation in the Bank Wiring Observation Room
    XX. Interemployee Relations in the Bank Wiring Observation Room
    XXI. The Internal Organization of the Bank Wiring Observation Room
    XXII. Social Control of Work Behavior
    XXIII. Formal vs. Informal Organization

    Part V

    XXIV. An Industrial Organization as a Social System
    XXV. A Restatement of the Human Problems of Management
    XXVI. Implications for Personnel Practice

    Biography

    F. J. Roethlisberger, William J. Dickson