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== Bank wiring room experiments == The purpose of the next study was to find out how payment incentives and small groups would affect productivity. The surprising result was that productivity actually decreased. Workers apparently had become suspicious that their productivity may have been boosted to justify firing some of the workers later on.<ref>{{cite book | last = Henslin | first = James M. | title = Sociology: a down to earth approach | edition = 9th | publisher = [[Pearson Education]] | year = 2008 | page = 140 | isbn = 978-0-205-57023-2 }}</ref> The study was conducted by [[Elton Mayo]] and [[W. Lloyd Warner]] between 1931 and 1932 on a group of fourteen men who put together telephone switching equipment. The researchers found that although the workers were paid according to individual productivity, productivity decreased because the men were afraid that the company would lower the base rate. Detailed observation of the men revealed the existence of informal groups or "cliques" within the formal groups. These cliques developed informal rules of behavior as well as mechanisms to enforce them. The cliques served to control group members and to manage bosses; when bosses asked questions, clique members gave the same responses, even if they were untrue. These results show that workers were more responsive to the social force of their [[peer group]]s than to the control and incentives of management.
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