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Elton Mayo est un psychologue et sociologue australien à l'origine du mouvement des relations humaines en management.

Il est considéré comme l'un des pères fondateurs de la sociologie du travail en initiant la vision sociale de l'être humain au travail.

De ses expérimentations, il a déduit l'importance de la motivation sociale sur le comportement et la performance des travailleurs, ceux-ci étant en attente de reconnaissance et de considération dans les relations interpersonnelles.

Il est aussi connu pour avoir théorisé "l"Effet Hawthorne" qui a été à l'origine du courant de recherche du "Mouvement du Potentiel Humain". Wikipedia  

✵ 26. décembre 1880 – 7. septembre 1949
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Elton Mayo: Citations en anglais

“The problem is not that of the sickness of an acquisitive society; it is that of the acquisitiveness of a sick society.”

Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 147

“Defeat takes the form of ultimate disillusion — a disgust with the "futility of endless pursuit."”

Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 125

“If our social skills (that is, our ability to secure co-operation between people) had advanced step by step with our technical skills, there would not have been another European War.”

Source: The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, 1945, p. 30 (in 2014 edition); Cited in: Urwick & Brech (1949, 215)

“The recent growth of interest in political matters in Australia is by no means a sign of social health.”

Source: Democracy and freedom. 1919, p. 43; Cited in: John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood (eds). George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, Volume 1. 2004, p. 78

“What social and industrial research has not sufficiently realised as yet is that… minor irrationalities of the “average normal” person are cumulative in their effect. They may not cause “breakdown” in the individual but they do cause “breakdown” in the industry.”

Elton Mayo, “Irrationalty and Revery”, Journal of Personnel Research, March 1933, p.482; Cited in: Ionescu, G.G., & A.L. Negrusa. "Elton Mayo, an Enthusiastical Managerial Philosopher." Revista de Management Comparat International 14.5 (2013): 671.

“Acting in collaboration with the National Research Council, the Western Electric Company had for three years been engaged upon an attempt to assess the effect of illumination upon the worker and his work.”

Source: The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilisation, (1933), p. 55, chapter 3: The Hawthorne experiment Western Electric Company

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