"The distilled narrative of what is the Hawthorne Effect
is this – the act of observing people’s behavior changes that behavior.
The name derives from experiments conducted between 1924 and 1933 in
Western Electric’s factory at Hawthorne, a suburb of Chicago. The
experimenters made various changes to the working environment, like
changing light levels, and noticed that regardless of the change,
performance increased. If they increased light levels, performance
increased. If they decreased light levels, performance increased. They
eventually concluded that observing the workers was leading to the
performance increase, and the actual change in working conditions was
irrelevant. This is now referred to as an observer effect, but also the
term Hawthorn Effect was coined in 1953 by psychologist J.R.P. French."
The Hawthorne Effect Revisited
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
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