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    The Hawthorne Studies

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    Introduction Hawthorne Studies began in 1924 until 1932 at the Western Electric‚ Hawthorne plant in Cicero‚ Illinois‚ by Professor Elton Mayo. Initially‚ this study was originated to identify the conditions of which would improve the working conditions for higher productivity. However‚ as time progressed‚ it evolved and was used by managements across as a guide to restructuring their respective companies. With Professor Elton Mayo from the Harvard Business School began a study of how the workers

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    that it was up to the managers to analysis tasks at hand to identify whether or not they could be performed more effectively. One of the most criticised and controversial investigations ever undertaken on workplace relations was known as the Hawthorne Effect. These studies were undertaken at the Bell Telephone Western Electric Manufacturing Plant in Chicago. The studies began in 1924 and continued through until the Depression in 1932. The purpose of the studies was to gain an insight on whether

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    Personnel management is a legacy of the Hawthorne Studies .Discuss? Employees can be considered as an organization most valuable asset. Their development by the organizational administrative possibly is a definition for personnel management. The needs for concern about individuals in an organization had been long time overdue. The Hawthorne studies were a step forward. Such studies was about relations approach through a series of research methods‚ for instance illuminations and relay assembly

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    Hawthorne Introduction

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    Hawthorne Introduction | |   | ------------------------------------------------- 表單的頂端…. My Kinsman‚ Major Molineux” [and] “Young Goodman Brown”: both probe the individual’s complex inner life and interrelationships with society‚ warning against simplistic moral judgments and challenging pious assumptions about Puritanism and revolutionary America. Both present eruptions of what has been suppressed; and the narrator‚ who asks if the guilt-obsessed Brown had “only dreamed a wild dream of of witch-meeting”

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    House by the Railroad

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    House by the Railroad In EdwardHirsch’s poem"EdwardHopperandthe Houseby the Railroad" Hirschjrurtaposes both the houseandEdwardHopperto createan ominousundertone throughoutthe poem.Hirsch personifies abandoned this houseto bring it to life while describingthe artist asrelentless‚ almostdehumanizing artist. Both the houseand the but artist sharesimilar qualitiesandcharacteristics‚ throughout poeft‚ Hinch asserts the his positionthat he is moreintriguedin Hopperasan artist than in the art he hascreated

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    Underground Railroad

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    Knowing ones self is an invaluable gift. Many people believe they know themselves by knowing what they like or dislike‚ how they dress ‚ the company they keep and so forth. There is an underlying and overlooked complicity to really know ones self. For many of us it is only in our imaginations where we come from. Given the fact we know we are from parts our parents‚ grandparents ‚ great-grand parents‚ what does that mean ? Where did we come from? In this society with the ideas of ethnocentrism‚ I

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ all are highly acclaimed American poets of the 19th century‚ particularly ranging from between the years 1820-1860. Between the years 1820 -1860‚ is considered as the Romanic Period‚ which was the follow up from the Romantic Movement that started in Germany. The Romantic Movement surfaced in the America in 1820‚ and ended up coinciding with the period of national expansion‚ and the exploration or a

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    The Railroad Boom

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    The Railroad Boom The main reason for the transcontinental railroads to be built was to bring the east and west together. The building of these railroads caused huge economic growth throughout the United States. The railroad created opportunities for everyone across the US. “Railroads were the first big business‚ the first magnet for the great financial markets‚ and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy. The railroads opened the western half of the nation to economic

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    Hawthorne Studies

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    Prentice Hall Carey A. (1967) "The Hawthorne Studies: A Radical Criticism"‚ American Sociological Review‚ Vol.32‚ No.3‚ Jun. 1967‚ p.403-416. Clark D (1999) “Hawthorne Effect” Retrieved November 20‚ 2007‚ Retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/history/hawthorne.html Coutts B‚ (2003) “The Hawthorne Experiments” Retrived November 25‚ 2007‚ Retrived from http://www.hawthorne-academy.org/publication6.html Draper S.W (2006) “The Hawthorne‚ Pygmalion‚ Placebo and other effects of

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    The Scarlet Letter Alienation can be linked to self-discovery. The alienated can make a choice: to endure or to protest. Explain the choices made by Hester Prynne and how they are typical or atypical based on the societal values during this time period (1640s). Hester Prynne has made many tough decisions throughout the novel. Most‚ if not all‚ of her choices were atypical for women during this time period. One of Hester’s most prominent decisions was to stay in town when she knows that her

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