Employee Value System Analysis: A New Tool for More Effective Management

Summary

Ever since the Industrial Revolution management has been searching for and experimenting with „fads“ or „panaceas“ that would enhance production and the efficiency of the labor force. Frederick Taylor was one of the first such researchers with his Scientific Management efforts, followed by the Gilbreths, Follett, and Mayo and Roethlisberger with the Hawthorne experiments. The Hawthorne experiments focused attention, for the first time, on the feelings, emotions, and intrinsic satisfiers of the working man. Management and researchers began to realize the importance of the individual employee and that each employee is different with different motivators and satisfiers. The Hawthorne research and the aftermath are appropriately credited with establishing the „employee behavior“ era of organizational theory.

Frank M. Rachel is Professor of Management at the North Texas State University.