Why does the "Hawthorne Effect" induce people to become more effective? How have you seen the
"Hawthorne Effect" at work in your own life? For example, do you increase your number of responses in
an online course if an online instructor responds to your work in the discussions? Why or why not?
The Hawthorne effect goes back to the 1950 Henry A. Landsberger during his analysis of experiments
conducted during the 1920s and 1930s. It effect is a term that is used for the tendency of some people