Frases de Elton Mayo

George Elton Mayo foi um psicólogo australiano, professor sociólogo e pesquisador das organizações. Como professor da Harvard Business School, entre 1923 e 1926 realizou a destacada pesquisa que popularizou-se como Hawthorne Studies, revelando a importância de considerar os fatores sociais que poderiam influenciar uma situação de trabalho, tornando-se reconhecido por esses experimentos.Elton Mayo supervisionou uma experiência em uma fábrica da Western Electric Company, localizada em Hawthorne, distrito de Chicago, nos Estados Unidos. Esta experiência caracterizou-se como um movimento de resposta e visava democratizar a administração nas frentes de trabalho das indústrias, aliado ao desenvolvimento das ciências humanas – psicologia e sociologia, dentre outras – e as conclusões da Experiência de Hawthorne fez brotar a Teoria das Relações Humanas. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Dezembro 1880 – 7. Setembro 1949
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Elton Mayo: Frases em inglês

“The problem is not that of the sickness of an acquisitive society; it is that of the acquisitiveness of a sick society.”

Fonte: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 147

“Defeat takes the form of ultimate disillusion — a disgust with the "futility of endless pursuit."”

Fonte: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 125

“If our social skills (that is, our ability to secure co-operation between people) had advanced step by step with our technical skills, there would not have been another European War.”

Fonte: The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, 1945, p. 30 (in 2014 edition); Cited in: Urwick & Brech (1949, 215)

“The recent growth of interest in political matters in Australia is by no means a sign of social health.”

Fonte: Democracy and freedom. 1919, p. 43; Cited in: John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood (eds). George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, Volume 1. 2004, p. 78

“What social and industrial research has not sufficiently realised as yet is that… minor irrationalities of the “average normal” person are cumulative in their effect. They may not cause “breakdown” in the individual but they do cause “breakdown” in the industry.”

Elton Mayo, “Irrationalty and Revery”, Journal of Personnel Research, March 1933, p.482; Cited in: Ionescu, G.G., & A.L. Negrusa. "Elton Mayo, an Enthusiastical Managerial Philosopher." Revista de Management Comparat International 14.5 (2013): 671.

“Acting in collaboration with the National Research Council, the Western Electric Company had for three years been engaged upon an attempt to assess the effect of illumination upon the worker and his work.”

Fonte: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 55, chapter 3: The Hawthorne experiment Western Electric Company