Elton Mayon's Theory Of The Human Relation School
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Universidad EAFIT
Programa de Negocios Internacionales
Principles of Management
The Human Relation School
Elisa Castro Echavarría
Alejandro Henao Gómez
Medellin, Antioquia
August 3, 2015
The Human Relation School This school began in the early 1920’s during the industrial revolution. Productivity was the most important factor in all, if not most, of the companies at that time. Elton Mayon began his experiments to prove the importance of people for productivity, not machines. The human relations approach to management focuses on people, particularly the psychological and social aspects of work. This school is known as the motivational theory, it sees the employees in a different way than most schools do, and it believes incentives