What Did Elton Mayo Discover from the Hawthorne Experiment

question 35

Multiple Choice

What did Elton Mayo discover from the Hawthorne Experiment?

• A)Strong bureaucracy in the organization would make up for a worker's lack of motivation and thus the productivity would remain high.
• B)Workers performed better because someone was paying attention to them, which was more than what they were accustomed to receiving at work.
• C)Managers treated workers well because they knew that the workers would be hard to replace due to scarcity of labor.
• D)Workers' productivity increased because they used the optimum shovel that allowed them to work the whole day without taking too many breaks.

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