What Is the Hawthorne Effect

question 116

Multiple Choice

What is the Hawthorne effect?

• A) workers responding to the attention they are given
• B) stopwatch time studies leading to time standards
• C) the use of quantitative methods for solving management problems
• D) the use of interchangeable parts
• E) more lighting increases productivity

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