Hawthorne effect en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by American social psychologist John R. P. French in 1953 after a study conducted by Elton Mayo in 1924-1932 at the Hawthorne Works, a large factory complex in Cicero, Illinois (formerly Hawthorne).
Meanings
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A phenomenon whereby a change in the behavior of a subject being studied is an effect of the change itself or the fact of being observed rather than the nature of the change in question.
In modern organizations, a Hawthorne effect might occur when a relatively trivial change is made in a person's job, and that person initially responds to this change very positively but the effect does not last long.
2002, Steve M. Jex, Organizational Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 13:Even if methodological shortcomings were waived, there is no proof of a Hawthorne effect in the original data.
2006 October, Michiel AJ Kompier, “The “Hawthorne effect” is a myth, but what keeps the story going?”, in Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, volume 32, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 402–412:
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Translations (6)
de Hawthorne-Effekt (Translations) · ru хо́торнский эффе́кт (Translations) · pl efekt Hawthorne (Translations) · fi Hawthorne-ilmiö (Translations) · fr effet Hawthorne (Translations) · de Beobachtereffekt (Translations)