Talk:Elton Mayo
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| I'm not sure of the format for editing these discussions, but this looks like a stub and I feel that it should be extended a little further. Elton Mayo performed many experients: one was how changing lighting conditions in a factory changed the ways the workers worked. I'd elaborate more but there's probably someone else who knows a lot more about this than I do. Despite his influence, Elton Mayo has not fully established himself as a legitimate business figure to a significant minority of scholars. James Hoopes, a distinguished professor of history (and Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient and Rhodes Scholar), points out some pretty major flaws in Mayo's work and thinking. Pages 129 through 159 of Hoopes's False Prophets, 2003 Perseus Publishing, are all about Elton Mayo. Hoopes' comments are well-referenced, so these appear to be legitimate problems with this historical figure. Hoopes's ideas should be added somehow. I will give it a shot.--72.197.107.190 (talk) 16:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC) I would like to point out that there is more information on elton mayo's other experiments under the 'Hawthorn Effect'
