Sunday, May 23, 2004
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone ever heard of this:
There was a study done at some factory (in upstate NY I think) where they were like, "Let's put on some music and see if it increases productivity." Lo and behold, it did. So they were like "ok, now turn it off and let's watch the poor guys get all bored again and the productivity go back down." But instead it went back up. So they get to thinking, "hmmmm....how 'bout if we paint the walls?" Productivity up again. And so on and so forth until they figured out that it was just the newness of it...just the change itself that was increasing productivity. What the change was didn't matter.
Does anybody know what that's called? They named it after the town where the factory was and it's called "The ___________ Effect." Anybody? Anybody??
Also, anybody have a picture of Matt Hagaman you can email to me by Wednesday??? I might have to call Mom on that one...unless any of my Wilkes peeps are regular subscribers.
There was a study done at some factory (in upstate NY I think) where they were like, "Let's put on some music and see if it increases productivity." Lo and behold, it did. So they were like "ok, now turn it off and let's watch the poor guys get all bored again and the productivity go back down." But instead it went back up. So they get to thinking, "hmmmm....how 'bout if we paint the walls?" Productivity up again. And so on and so forth until they figured out that it was just the newness of it...just the change itself that was increasing productivity. What the change was didn't matter.
Does anybody know what that's called? They named it after the town where the factory was and it's called "The ___________ Effect." Anybody? Anybody??
Also, anybody have a picture of Matt Hagaman you can email to me by Wednesday??? I might have to call Mom on that one...unless any of my Wilkes peeps are regular subscribers.
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