Talk:Occupational burnout/Archives/2017
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Mayo's Hawthorne Studies
Can someone explain what this is? It is mentioned as if the reader should know what Mayo's Hawthorne Studies are. Thank you. --Lucas (talk) 22:18, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
- User:Lucasreddinger, the Hawthorne research was very weak. The Hawthorne research is not worth citing because it is so weak. The following two papers underline the weakness of the research.
- Parsons, H. M. (1974). What happened at Hawthorne? Science, 183(4128), 922–932. doi:10.1126/science.183.4128.922
- Levitt, S. D., & List, J. A. (2011). Was there really a Hawthorne effect at the Hawthorne plant? An analysis of the original illumination experiments. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3, 224–238. doi: 10.1257/app.3.1.224
- The next paper indicts the ideas behind Hawthorne.
I deleted the reference to Hawthorne (the claim that employee assistance programs developed out of the Hawthorne studies) because the claim was not sourced. I am not asserting that Hawthorne and employee assistance programs are unrelated. They may very well be related (although such a connection is not mentioned in the employee assistance program Wikipedia entry). The claim however should have a source if it is to remain in the burnout entry. Iss246 (talk) 16:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)