Hawthorne Studies

Pre Industrialization
Management thoughts were largely based on cultural
values which were anti capitalistic
Industrialization could not come about because people
were bound to their jobs, their role in society, their life
in general, under a monarch who ruled through
dictatorship living a life of oppression.
Unit or Job Type of Production and Domestic System
Countries and their economies were static
Political decisions relied on a central authority.
Industrialization
Mass Production or Flow production
Large improvements in science and technology
Ford’s assembly line and Frederick Taylor’s scientific
management
Creating economic progress but at the same time
massive conflict between management and the
labourers or workers
Factory system and scientific management stemmed
alienation
Imagine Prison
Imagine we are doing a class experiment of a prison,
with half of volunteers being made prisoners and
other half being made Prison Guards.
What will be the behaviours that will be shown during
the class experiment by
Prison Guards
Prisoners