If you attended B-School or spent any time studying organizations, you likely have heard of the Hawthorne Effect. This phenomenon gets its name from productivity studies conducted in the late 1920s at the Hawthorne Works, a Chicago area plant of the Western Electric company. The findings are fascinating and worth five minutes of Wikipedia reading. […]
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Leadership Styles in Change Management – The Amazing Story of the Hawthorne Effect
I have long held the view that the successful strategies for managing change and the leadership styles in practical change management that support those strategies are people centric rather than totally process oriented. Whilst undertaking research for a section of my website I came across a very interesting experiment. A major business improvement research project […]