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3 March 2008

HBS online exhibition: The Human Relations Movement

The Harvard Business School library hosts a great online exhibition called "The Human Relations Movement" with explanations and pictures of the Hawthorne Effect.

Harvard researchers have studied the Hawthorne plant between 1924 and 1933 by observing how different changes in work-related variables effect performance.

The Hawthorne effect is described by Rothlisberger as:

"the phenomenon in which subjects in behavioral studies change their performance in response to being observed"

Posted by Ines Mergel at March 3, 2008 9:26 AM

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