Shining new light on the hawthorne illumination experiments

Human Factors

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 528-547

  Izawa, Masumi R ^a   French, Michael D ^a   Hedge, Alan ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Hawthorne effect; illumination; lighting; productivity

Indexed keywords

ARCHIVAL DATA; CORNELL UNIVERSITY; FIELD STUDIES; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; LIGHT LEVEL; PRODUCTIVITY DATA; VISUAL COMPARISON;

LIGHTING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRODUCTIVITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY; WORKPLACE;

EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIGHTING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL; WORKPLACE;

EID: 80052989097     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720811417968     Document Type: Article

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