Job Outlook Report
25 October 2011
Case Study of Elton Mayo George Elton Mayo was born on Boxing Day (December 26), 1880, in Adelaide, Australia and lived until 1949. (economist.com) Mayo was the oldest son of George Gibbs Mayo and Henrietta may. He has an extensive list of schools where he received education, starting with the Queen’s School and Collegiate School of St. Peter. Following that Mayo, attended the University of Adelaide and Universities in Edinburgh and London where he lost his interest in pursuing a career in medicine. Starting in 1903 he moved back and forth between London and Adelaide where he held jobs as a writer, English teacher, and became a partner in a printing company. Then in 1907, still not finding his calling in life he went back to school to pursue degrees in philosophy and psychology under (Sir) William Mitchell, where he would win the Robby Fletcher Prize in psychology and graduated with honors. Following his last stint of education Mayo, became foundation lecturer in mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland and shortly after married his wife Dorothea McConnel (Bourke adu.edu) Who was Elton Mayo? What was the Hawthorne experiment about, what was its purpose? Elton Mayo was a professor at the University Queensland, a research associate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and an associate professor and professor of industrial research at the Harvard School of Business Administration. He was also the author of three books and studied researched the social behavior of employees at work. After his ground breaking research he did while at the University of Pennsylvania, where he curved a spinning mill in Philadelphia’s turnover rate from two-hundred fifty percent to six, bringing it down with the rest of the departments in the company. Amazingly, he created such dramatic improvents in only a year’s time. The research done allowed him to conclude that social factors in the workplace were more motivation than financial
Case Study of Elton Mayo George Elton Mayo was born on Boxing Day (December 26), 1880, in Adelaide, Australia and lived until 1949. (economist.com) Mayo was the oldest son of George Gibbs Mayo and Henrietta may. He has an extensive list of schools where he received education, starting with the Queen’s School and Collegiate School of St. Peter. Following that Mayo, attended the University of Adelaide and Universities in Edinburgh and London where he lost his interest in pursuing a career in medicine. Starting in 1903 he moved back and forth between London and Adelaide where he held jobs as a writer, English teacher, and became a partner in a printing company. Then in 1907, still not finding his calling in life he went back to school to pursue degrees in philosophy and psychology under (Sir) William Mitchell, where he would win the Robby Fletcher Prize in psychology and graduated with honors. Following his last stint of education Mayo, became foundation lecturer in mental and moral philosophy at the University of Queensland and shortly after married his wife Dorothea McConnel (Bourke adu.edu) Who was Elton Mayo? What was the Hawthorne experiment about, what was its purpose? Elton Mayo was a professor at the University Queensland, a research associate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and an associate professor and professor of industrial research at the Harvard School of Business Administration. He was also the author of three books and studied researched the social behavior of employees at work. After his ground breaking research he did while at the University of Pennsylvania, where he curved a spinning mill in Philadelphia’s turnover rate from two-hundred fifty percent to six, bringing it down with the rest of the departments in the company. Amazingly, he created such dramatic improvents in only a year’s time. The research done allowed him to conclude that social factors in the workplace were more motivation than financial