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Thomas North Whitehead

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Thomas North Whitehead (born 31 December 1891 in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and died 22 November 1969 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an early English Human Relations theorist and researcher, best known for The Industrial Worker,[1] a two volume statistical analysis of the Hawthorne Experiments. He was the son of the prominent English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead.[2]

References

  1. ^ Whitehead, T. 1938. The Industrial Worker: A Statistical Study of Human Relations in a Group of Manual Workers. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press.
  2. ^ Gillespie, R. 1991. Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.