The politics of management thought: A case study of Harvard Business School and the Human Relations School

This article describes the early development of the Human Relations School at the Harvard Business School under the leadership of Elton Mayo and Wallace Donham. It shows how both achieved early success by positioning themselves as solutions to pressing social, economic, and political issues of the period between World War I and the New Deal.

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Year of publication:	1999
Authors:	O'Connor, Ellen
Institutions:	Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)
Subject:	Harvard Business School \| Human Relations School \| Education

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Series:	Economics Papers from University Paris Dauphine.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published in The Academy of Management Review, 1999, Vol. 24, no. 1. pp. 117-131.Length: 14 pages
Classification:	M54 - Labor Management (team formation, worker empowerment, job design, tasks and authority, job satisfaction) ; M12 - Personnel Management ; H83 - Public Administration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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