2006
DOI: 10.1177/1744935906064095
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Henry S. Dennison, Elton Mayo, and Human Relations historiography

Abstract: The conventional wisdom in management thought is that Human Relations was the intellectual progeny of Elton Mayo and his associates, arising out of the fabled Hawthorne ‘experiments’ and marked a distinct intellectual break from Scientific Management.This article questions these sentiments and explores the contribution to Human Relations thinking made by Boston businessman and Taylorist Henry S. Dennison.The article will demonstrat… Show more

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“…On this issue, I would draw attention to the evolution of a continuing scientific management tradition at Hawthorne in the 1920s and 1930s (notably under the guidance of Henry Fleetwood Albright, Western Electrics' 'champion of scientific engineering') and how the company helped 'export scientific management to Japan' (see Adams and Butler, 1999: 76−80). Similarly, although 'human relations' (as a 'school' of management thought) is recurrently defined and explained as a successor movement to scientific management, research in management history describes how, in American industry, the term actually predates the work of Elton Mayo and the Harvard Group (see Bruce, 2006 and HRS became the received wisdom' and in the process how 'conservative, anti-liberal segments of the American business community, seeking a return to the managerial hegemony they believed they enjoyed in the pre-New Deal era, stood to gain' (p. 384). Ultimately they question the extent to which 'Mayo's interpretation of the Hawthorne experiments was more reflective of his pre-formed personal views than of the actual empirical results', with such ideological artefact serving to 'shade Roethlisberger and Dickson's "official'' account' (1939: 385).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…On this issue, I would draw attention to the evolution of a continuing scientific management tradition at Hawthorne in the 1920s and 1930s (notably under the guidance of Henry Fleetwood Albright, Western Electrics' 'champion of scientific engineering') and how the company helped 'export scientific management to Japan' (see Adams and Butler, 1999: 76−80). Similarly, although 'human relations' (as a 'school' of management thought) is recurrently defined and explained as a successor movement to scientific management, research in management history describes how, in American industry, the term actually predates the work of Elton Mayo and the Harvard Group (see Bruce, 2006 and HRS became the received wisdom' and in the process how 'conservative, anti-liberal segments of the American business community, seeking a return to the managerial hegemony they believed they enjoyed in the pre-New Deal era, stood to gain' (p. 384). Ultimately they question the extent to which 'Mayo's interpretation of the Hawthorne experiments was more reflective of his pre-formed personal views than of the actual empirical results', with such ideological artefact serving to 'shade Roethlisberger and Dickson's "official'' account' (1939: 385).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Neste artigo se apresentam os resultados da pesquisa científica qualitativa de sete empresas coordenada pela Rede de Gerência Humanista (Von Kimakowitz, et. al, 2011) (Bruce, 2006 ;Wu et Lee, 2001 ;Fisher, 2000 ;Lyons, 2006). (Schumacher, 1975) ni les paradigmes des instances dirigeantes qui génèrent des structures contraires à la gestion des ressources humaines (Maslow, 1968;Berger et Luckmann, 1967 ;Senge et al, 1994).…”
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“…Muchas vertientes contemporáneas marcan el inicio en la teoría administrativa de Taylor (1963), o administración científica, las cuales tuvieron una bifurcación con las ideas de Mayo y Dennison en los años 20 del siglo pasado (Bruce, 2006), y de otros pioneros como McGregor, Maslow y Herzberg, por mencionar sólo algunos. La lista de nombres que trabajan este espectro de la gerencia, es larga, pero se pueden mencionar algunos: Gerencia Participativa (Wu y Lee, 2001); Gerencia Humanista (Melé, 2003;Spitzeck et.…”
Section: Gerencia Humanista Para La Sostenibilidadunclassified
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