Hawthorne’s Studies and I/O Psychology

Hawthorne’s Studies and I/O Psychology
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Hawthorne’s Studies and I/O Psychology
Hawthorne's primary finding was that individuals’ performance at work is dependent on job satisfaction and social issues. Good working conditions and monetary incentives are less critical to improving employees’ productivity. They are crucial for people when they want to belong to a specific group. Hawthorne’s experiments made it clear that social situations are significant in workers’ task performance and productivity (Zoller & Muldoon, 2019). Social issues are factors that affect employees’ relationships with others. For example, the ability to embrace workforce diversity is important to eliminating conflicts that make it challenging for individuals to work in a team effectively. When it comes to job satisfaction, it entails the proper treatment of workers in such a way that they feel at the right place. For instance, an organization with zero-tolerance policies to gender discrimination and sexual harassment is likely to keep its employees for an extended period.
Furthermore, Hawthorne’s studies are important to industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology research. Notably, I/O psychology entails studying human behaviors in an organization and how th...