... relations school grew out of experiments between 1927 and 1932 at the Hawthorn Plant of theWestern Electric Company in Chicago. Initially they were based on the scientist idea that workers productivity was affected by work conditions, skills of workers and financial incentives. His research findings have contributed to organisation development in terms of human relations and motivation theory, many of these ideas that Mayo had were: * Working together is a group activity. * The social world of the adult is primarily patterned about work activities. * The need for recognition, security and sense of belonging is more important in determining workers morale and productivity than the physical conditions under which he works. Criticisms of Mayo's Theories it assumes workers and management share the same goals, that the communication between workers and management will break down barriers and it is biased toward managers, workers are manipulated into being productive by managers, which may ...

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