Learning Day-A Field is Born-OB

We work from Monday to Saturday.But Saturday as week end movement we Team HR in my company spend some time some thing existing to all of us.How is goes somebody raise a question on any area in HR,we discuss on various point of views.We are planning to structure little more on these.I will update you on this.

Today one of my team member raised a question How a field like Organisational Behavior is Born.This made me to remember a small article came in Harvard Business Review,A Field is Born.The article says,
* In the 1920's,in order to understand the relationship between Productivity and Job Satisfaction,HBS Professor Elton Mayo and Research assistant Fritz J.Roethlisberger studied work behavior at Western Electric,s Hawthorne Works plant outside Chicago.
* Over the five years period,they tracked the performance of six women assembling relays in a room separate from the main assembly hall.The workers productivity rose,which led mayo to conclude:"The six individuals become a Team"
* Following to this,they continued the experiment with 21,000 interviews at the plant and found that mental attitude,proper supervision and informal social relationships were critical to boost Productivity and Job Satisfaction.Even today the modern HR also stress these points on Proper Supervision and Informal Social relationship
*Later in 1966,they wrote a book called Counselling in Organisation,in which they argued that subjects change their when observed.They called this phenomenon the Hawthorne effect.
* Hawthorne experiment laid this foundation for the field of Organisational Behavior