FRITS ROETHLISBERGER
HUMAN RELATIONSHIP THEORY (Collection: Fritz J. Roethlisberger Papers | HOLLIS For n.d.) I DENTIFICATION OF ISS UE : D eclines in employee engagement APPLIED THEORY : Hawthorn Effect PRACTICAL THEORY : To increase worker productivity LINKED THEORIES : Hawthorn Effect and Ludwig Von's theory SOLUTION: Improve Human relations in organizations “Instead of treating the workers as an appendage to `the machine`,” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld notes in his detailed analysis of the studies, the Hawthorne experiments brought to light ideas concerning motivational influences, job satisfaction, resistance to change, group norms, worker participation, and effective leadership ( Kahn 1999). From the leadership point of view today, organizations that do not pay sufficient attention to `people` and `cultural` variables are consistently l...