Interview with former Western Electric Company employees concerning their participation in the Hawthorne Studies, 1983 September 9 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Theresa Layman Zajac papers
Scope and Contents
Unstructured interview (two interviewers?) with three former Western Electric Company employees who were part of the Hawthorne Studies between 1924 and 1933. The three interviewees, who worked in the production room, are two women, Theresa Layman Zajac and Wanda [last name unknown] who were layout operators, and a man named Don [Tipman?], a front-line supervisor who eventually became an “observer.” An interviewer asks questions about the Relay Assembly Test Room where the time study took...