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Elton Mayo
Elton Mayo (1880–1949) was a key researcher whose work marked a turning point in industrial psychology. Between 1929 and 1932, he and his colleagues conducted the influential Hawthorne Studies, which shifted the focus of workplace research from physical conditions to interpersonal and social dynamics, leading to the emergence of organizational psychology as a distinct field.
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A manufacturing company is facing two major challenges: 1) improving the accuracy of its hiring process for new managers, and 2) increasing the physical efficiency of its assembly line workers by optimizing their movements. Which pair of early psychologists' work would be most directly applicable to addressing these two distinct problems, respectively?