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The original Hawthorne studies from the 1920s-1930s aimed to study how workplace factors like lighting and break times impacted productivity. Researchers found that productivity increased regardless of changes, suggesting workers responded more to attention than variables. Later called the Hawthorne effect, it refers to improved performance from being observed, not the variables tested. However, more recent analysis found the effect was weaker than claimed, with other factors like feedback also influencing
- Author
- Praveen Sinha
- Language
- EN