Is important to note that the Mayo team began its work trying to fit into the mold of classical organization theory thinking. The team phrased its questions in the language and concepts industry was accustomed to using in order to see and explain certain problems, among them productivity in relationship to such factors as the amount of light, the rate of flow of materials, and alternative wage payment plans. The Mayo team succeeded in making significant breakthroughs in understanding only after it redefined the Hawthorne problems as social psychological problems-problems conceptualized in such terms as interpersonal relations in groups, group norms, control over own environment, and personal recognition. It was only after the Mayo team achieved this breakthrough that it became the "grandfather the direct precursor of the field of organizational behavior and human resource theory. The Hawthorne experiments were the emotional and intellectual wellspring of modern theories of motivation. They showed that complex, interactional variables make the difference in motivating people-things like attention paid to workers as individuals, workers control over their own work differences between individuals needs managements willingness to listen, group norms and direct feedback.