Fritz Roethlisberger

Works

• Management and the Worker: An Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1939

In Organizational Structures

Known for

The Hawthorne studies report

Ideas

The Hawthorne studies. With William Dickson, Roethlisberger reported the Western Electric studies and their finding that informal organization governs much of behavior at work. Caveat: Reanalyses by Carey, Franke and Kaul, and Levitt and List dispute key findings.

Organizational Structures that draw on Fritz Roethlisberger (1)

• Functional structure