疲労研究所の創設とその活動 : ホーソン・リサーチへの序奏

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The aim of this paper is to make clear the process of establishment of the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory and its research activities in early years. The reason behind it is to investigate the Scientific Community which was made up at Harvard Business School during 1930s and HFL was one of the main research institutes at Harvard. E. Mayo suggested the necessity of establishment of the laboratory to the Dean, W. B. Donham. The laboratory investigated that how the working condition influences physiological changes of human organism from interdisciplinary scientific approach (Physiology, Psychology, Sociology and so on). And L. J. Henderson also suggested to the Dean to establish the laboratory for the construct of human biology. As the basis of Dean Donham's request being called upon by Henderson and Mayo, L. Lowell, the president of Harvard University, made appeal to Rockefeller Foundation for financial support for the research of the industrial efficiency in business. As a result, the HFL was established on May in 1927. HFL as a center of research led by Henderson, the work of Physiology and Applied Physiology were gradually established towards the construction of Human Biology. But Sociology was not developed yet. In order for the sociological research to develop, the occurrence was needed. That was Hawthorne Research.
青森公立大学の論文
2004-03-20