Thomas North Whitehead | |
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Born | |
Died | 22 November 1969 | (aged 77)
Nationality | British |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge University College London |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Human relations |
Institutions | Harvard University Radcliffe College |
Thomas North Whitehead (31 December 1891, Cambridge, England – 22 November 1969, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an early human relations theorist and researcher, best known for The Industrial Worker, a two-volume statistical analysis of the Hawthorne experiments.[1] He worked as a professor at Harvard University and Radcliffe College, and in the British Foreign Office during World War II.