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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.
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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.
Elton Mayo's experiments into workplace motivation at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s found an unexpected result, now known as the Hawthorne Effect.
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 ...
Sep 2, 2021 · Mayo, Elton: The Fruitful Legacy of an Intellectual Explorer. Reference work entry. First Online: 02 September 2021. pp 1047–1066. Cite this reference work entry. Eric J. Sanders. 186 Accesses. Abstract. Elton Mayo was one of the key initial researchers in the field of human relations.
He explained the role of human behaviour in production and also highlighted the importance of communication between the workers and the management. Elton mayo in his studies concentrated on fatigue, accidents, production levels, rest periods, working conditions, etc., of industrial workers in factories.
