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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HAWTHORNE EFFECT</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><!--~--> <TABLE BORDER=4 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 ><Tr><td><img src=../Images/PCP-logoS.GIF></td><td valign=center align=right><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 ><TR><TD><font size=+2> <a href=../Default.html> P</font><font size=-1>RINCIPIA</font> <font size=+2>C</font><font size=-1>YBERNETICA </font><font size=+2>W</font><font size=-1>EB</a></font> </td><td>-</td><td><font size = +1> <a href=../COPYR.html>©</a></font></TD></TR></TABLE></td><tr></table><p><!--~--> <font size=-1><!--~--> <!--~--> <br><tt>Parent Node(s):</tt><ul type=disc> <li><a href="indexASC.html">Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems</a> </ul></font><!--~--> <hr><h1 align=center>HAWTHORNE EFFECT</h1><!--~--> Initial improvement in a process of <a href="PRODUCTION.html">production</a> caused by the obtrusive observation of that process. The effect was first noticed in the Hawthorne plant of Western Electric. Production increased not as a consequence of actual changes in working conditions introduced by the plant's management but because management demonstrated interest in such improvements (<i>see</i> <a href="SELF-F_HYPOT.html">self-fulfilling hypothesis</a>). (<a href=Kripp.html>Krippendorff</a>)<!--~--> <!--~--> <!--~--> <!--16,87,--><!--~--> <hr><TABLE BORDER=1 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0><tr><td> * <a href ="HERMENEUTIC.html">Next</a> </td><td> * <a href ="HARDWARE.html">Previous</a> </td><td> * <a href ="IndexASC.html">Index</a> </td><td> * <a rel=UseIndex href="../index.html">Search</a> </td><td> * <a href ="../howweb.html">Help</a> </td></tr></table><p><font size=-2>URL= http://cleamc11.vub.ac.be/ASC/HAWTHO_EFFEC.html</font></BODY></HTML>