George Elton Mayo : Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, (2 Volume Set)

George Elton Mayo (1880-1949) is widely recognized as the progenitor of the human relations movement in management and his work laid the foundations for later management and organizational thinking.

Mayo's work highlighted the importance of communication between management and workers and identified the now-accepted notion that work satisfaction, and therefore productivity, lies in recognition, security, and a sense of belonging, rather than monetary rewards. His findings were contrary to the theories of his contemporaries that the worker is motivated solely by self-interest (e.g. Taylorism). Mayo's work on human motivation revolutionized the theory and practice of management. This collection evaluates Mayo's role in shaping business and management studies upto the present day. It includes a new introduction and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Acknowledgements
Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles and Chapters
Introduction
An Abbreviated Annotated Bibiography

Volume 1

Part I : Mayo : The Man
Chapter 1 : Elton Mayo's Thesis
Chapter 2 : Taylor and Mayo Compared
Chapter 3 : Durkheim, Mayo, Morality and Management

Part II : Mayo : The Ideas
Chapter 4 : Rests-Authorized and Unauthorized
Chapter 5 : The Perspectives of Elton Mayo
Chapter 6 : The Social and Historical Philosophy of Elton Mayo
Chapter 7 : Elton Mayo and The Empirical Study of Social Group
Chapter 8 : Elton Mayo Revisited
Chapter 9 : Industial Unrest as Social Pathology: The Australian Writings of Elton Mayo
Chapter 10 : The Enduring Legacy of Elton Mayo

Part III : Collision of Ideas
Chapter 11 : Fruitful Errors of Elton Mayo : Who Proposes to Management and Labor a Social Basis for Industrial Peace
Chapter 12 : Industrial Sociology : Status and Prospects
Chapter 13 : Humman Relation : Rare, Medium, or Well-done?
Chapter 14 : Industrial Relations Research and Social Theory
Chapter 15 : Human Relations in Industrial Organisations
Chapter 16 : Training Supervisors in Humman Relations
Chapter 17 : Plant Sociology : Real Discoveries and New Problems
Chapter 18 : Plant Sociology : The Elite and The Aborigines
Chapter 19 : Management and Human Relations
Chapter 20 : Modern Orgnization Theory : A Psychological and Sociological Study
Chapter 21 : Sociological Theory and the Human Relations School
Chapter 22 : History of Work Concepts
Chapter 23 : From Industrial Democracy to Professional Adjustment : The Development of Industrial Sociology in The United States, 1900-1955
Chapter 24 : Industrial Fatigue and The Discipline of Physiology
Chapter 25 : Negotiating Equitable Intervention : Marketing vs. Human Relations Theory
Chapter 26 : The Politics of Management Thought : A Case Study of The Harvard Business School and the Human Relations School
Chapter 27 : Elton Mayo and Carl Rogers : A Tale of Two Techniques

Volume II

Acknowledgements

Part IV : Hawthorne
Chapter 28 : The Hawthorne Experiments
Chapter 29 : Personnel Counseling : The Hawthorn Case
Chapter 30 : The Hawthorne Studies : A Radical Criticism
Chapter 31 : Solving Mayo's Mystery : The First Complete Account of the Origin of the Hawthorne Studies- the Forgotten Contributions of C.E. Snow and homer Hibarger
Chapter 32 : The Hawthorne Experiments : First Statistical Interpretation
Chapter 33 : What Caused the Hawthorne Effects? A Scientific Detective Story
Chapter 34 : The Relay Assembly Test Room : An Alternative Statistical Interpretation (Comment on Frank and Kaul,
ASR, October, 1978)
Chapter 35 : Worker Productivity at Hawthorne (Reply to Schlaifer)
Chapter 36 : Hawthone, The Myth of the Docile Worker, and  Class Bias in Psychology
Chapter 37 : The Hawthorne Experiments : Statistical Evidence for a Learning Hypothesis
Chapter 38 : Howthorne a Half Century Later : Relay Assembly Participants Remember
Chapter 39 : Shedding Light on The Howthorne Studies
Chapter 40 : Elton Mayo and The Hidden Howthorne

Part V : Human Relations in the Workplace
Chapter 41 : The Man in the Middle : Position and Problems of the Foreman
Chapter 42 : The Machine, the Worker and The Engineer
Chapter 43 :  Economics and Human Relations : the Presidential Address Delivered at The Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Political Science Association, June 18, 1948
Chapter 44 : Framework for The Analysis of Industrial Relations : Two Views
Chapter 45 : Worker Participation : International and Historical Perspectives
Chapter 46 : Human Relations in Industry
Chapter 47 : Union Derecognition and The New Human Relations:  A Steel Industry Case Study
Chapter 48 : Comment : Gender Blindness or Gender Suppression? A Comment on Fiona Wilson's Research Note
Chapter 49 : Coming to Terms With the Worker : West German Industry, Labour Relations and The Idea of America, 1949-60
Chapter 50 : How Work Gains Meaning in Contractual Time : A Narrative Model for Reconstructing The Work Ethic