Talk:Occupational burnout/Archives/2017

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.
 * Bell, D. (1947, January). The study of man: Adjusting men to machines. Commentary, 3, 79–88.  Iss246 (talk) 21:34, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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)