The Hawthorne studies were the work of
A)John Hawthorne.
B)Elton Mayo.
C)Hugo Munsterberg.
D)Frederick Taylor.
E)Mary Parker Follet.

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Elton Mayo is credited with conducting the Hawthorne studies, which were a series of experiments on worker productivity conducted at the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company in Cicero, Illinois, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. These studies significantly contributed to the development of the human relations movement in management.

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