Three Significant Works Affected Development of Organizational Behavior
1. Chester Barnard (VP NJ Bell): The Functions of the Executive (1938).
2. Felix Rothlisberger and William Dickson: Management and the Worker (1939).
All three of these men followed the Western Electric Hawthorne Plant experiments. They focused on formal and informal organization, stating that the informal could not be ignored, and that the needs and aspirations of the worker were important to effecti