Mayo, Elton

Mayo, Elton
(1880–1949) Gen Mgt
Australian psychologist and academic. Responsible for finding, through the Hawthorne experiments, that job satisfaction increases through employee participation in decision making, rather than through short-term incentives. The results of the Hawthorne studies were published in Mayo’s The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization (1933), and were further publicized by one of his collaborators, Fritz Jules Roethlisberger. Mayo is recognized as the founder of the human relations school of management.
     In the early part of his career, Mayo studied in London and Edinburgh and taught at Queensland University. He arrived in the United States in 1923 and worked at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Harvard. It was while he was at Harvard that Mayo became involved in the Hawthorne Studies.

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