PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Hawthorne Effect, Richard Clarke Cabot, Jaime Escalante
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Illustrations of the value of formal experimentation, and the dangers of more. Intervention program that fails can offer just as profound lessons as any of the successful laboratory experiments. Unintended dynamic consequences of intervention: acts of social intervention change the dynamics of social systems and relationships as well, social interventions decrease some forces that otherwise would have exerted a constructive influence. When small interventions succeed: relatively modest interventions sometimes prove to he remarkably effective. Lewinian discussion groups and democratic procedures: lewin"s remedy was the use of small discussion groups with homemakers, who. Expressions of hostility and resentment (17% quit their jobs) and a sharp drop in the rate of productivity: second group a group meeting was first held. Representative then selected by workers to meet with management and learn the new procedures. This representation procedure produced a far better result than the control condition.