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  • The Human Relations School refers to an intellectual circle and research agenda based on the work of G. Elton Mayo (1880–1949) and his colleagues at the Harvard Business School from 1925 to 1947 and his direction of the Hawthorne Experiments at Western Electric Company (1928–1933), including the publications of that research (1933–1945). The Human Relations School focused on the “human” aspects of the workplace, as distinguished from Frederick W. Taylor's mechanistic and technical focus and from the rational actor theory of classical economics. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Human Relations School]

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