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Elton Mayo
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Abraham Maslow
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Henry Fayol
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Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick
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Detailed explanation-1: -The approach was named after its founder, Elton Mayo. Mayo’s management theory highlights the importance of social factors in contributing to job satisfaction.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Hawthorne effect is a phenomenon observed as a result of an experiment conducted by Elton Mayo. In an experiment intended to measure how a work environment impacts worker productivity, Mayo’s researchers noted that workers productivity increased not from changes in environment, but when being watched.
Detailed explanation-3: -Professor Elton Mayo is known as the Father of the Human Relations Approach to Management Theory. From 1924-1932, he, along with Fritz Roethlisberger, T.N. Whitehead and William Dickson, conducted the Hawthorne studies (so named for the location of the studies-the Hawthorne Plan of Western Electric Company).