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...Donham brought D. Elton Mayo, a young Australian psychologist, to the school for experimentation in the untried field of human relations. Mayo's pioneering work led eventually to post-war changes in the school's curriculum. Today human relations is a significant topic on the business school campus. It is already the basis of two new post-war courses and is likely to influence the school's curriculum still further...
...ELTON J. HOPSON...
...liked it, and stayed to take his degree in geology at the University of Alaska. Drafted, he was assigned to the Army Arctic Training Center at Big Delta. Pfc. Argus climbed a lot, but nothing really big until he tried McKinley with three friends, all former fellow students: Elton Thayer, the leader, a McKinley Park ranger and experienced mountaineer; Morton Wood; pilot and homesteader, who had assaulted the peak before, but failed; Pfc. Leslie Viereck of Ladd Air Force Base...
This week Truth Salesman David Elton Trueblood, 53, got the biggest selling job of his life. He was appointed chief of Religious Policy for the U.S. Information Agency. As such, he will be in charge of one of the busiest, farthest-flung and least-known religious enterprises in the world...
...efficiency" no longer yielded greater output. Example: at a Pennsylvania textile plant where the labor turnover in one of the spinning departments was 41 times higher than elsewhere in the plant, efficiency experts in 1923 set up various wage incentives, yet production remained low and spinners kept quitting. When Elton Mayo was called in, he discovered the men were poor producers for a reason which had not occurred to anyone: they were unhappy. The machines had been set up so as to deprive the men of virtually all human contact with one another; lonely, they fell into melancholy and hypochondria...