Taylor's most famous story (Schmidt and the pig iron) was... mostly made up. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/1556350 https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/

Taylor's most famous story (Schmidt and the pig iron) was... mostly made up. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/1556350 https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/1556350 Hawthorne effect... was also made up. > But only five workers took part in the study, Dr. Ross said, and two were replaced partway through for gross insubordination and low output. > > A psychology professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Richard Nisbett calls the Hawthorne effect ''a glorified anecdote.'' (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/weekinreview/scientific-myths-that-are-too-good-to-die.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/weekinreview/scientific-m...) I learned both these facts from the highly entertaining "The Management Myth": https://mwstewart.com/books/the-management-myth/ https://mwstewart.com/books/the-management-myth/