The humanrelations
movement grew from the research of Elton Mayo and others, whose Hawthorne
studies (19241932)
serendipitously documented how stimuli, unrelated to financial compensation and
working conditions, yielded more productive workers.[6] Contemporaneous work by Abraham Maslow
(19081970),
Kurt Lewin (18901947),
Max Weber (18641920),
Frederick Herzberg (19232000),
and
David McClelland (19171998)
formed the basis for studies in industrial and organizational psychology,
organizational behavior and organizational theory, giving room for an applied discipline.