The Function of Contemporary Management and the Relationship Between Employer-Employee

This essay is going to explain about the contemporary management function and the employee-employer relationship by using Hawthorne studies and explain about the experiments he did, and will discuss about Hawthorne's studies and some articles that will be mention in this essay. In the industrial history, Hawthorne studies are one of the most famous studies which benefits every studies in the industrial social studies later on. The experiments were undertaken at Western Electric Company's Hawthorne Works in Chicago, Illinois during 1924 to 1932 (Robbins & Judge, 2007), the experiments was to study the relationship between workplace's light and worker's productivity. As a result, Hawthorne and his team found out that the results were ambiguous and there are something beyond those factors. They decided to shifted the focus from light towards the fatigue of the workers. The Hawthorne studies cited that workers will act according to their emotions, this can be said that workers tend to hang around other workers. Also, Hawthorne studies key point can be said that when people have been treated with respect in their peer-group and have their sense of belonging in their peer-group, they will try to meet other people's expectation thus will benefits both manager and the employee themselves.

Firstly, Hawthorne studies shows that money is not the only motivator for the workers, people can work for social factors instead of money. Robbins and Judge (2007) showed us the information that in the year 1924, Hawthorne studies was originally intended to promote sales of their light bulbs, the Western Electric Company wants to demonstrating about the positive relationship about intensity of light and the productivity of workers. Gale (2004) say th...

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