Biography
Psychologist and sociologist George Elton Mao was a researcher of production organizations, the creator of the school of human relations and a number of revolutionary doctrines. Australian scientist is accustomed to considering the confusing realities of society, trying to come to the root cause as much and opportunities.Childhood and youth
George Elton Mao's biography began in the city of Adelaide, he was the most eldest child in an intelligent family. Among the ancestors of the boy born in December 1880, there were men who received the status of practicing doctors in the youth.
The father of the future scientist changed a number of technical professions - first worked as a drawer, and then settled on the plant. The qualification of the construction engineer, obtained in adulthood, allowed the family to live in his own home, not knowing the problems and adversity.
Henrietta Mother Mary Donaldon was engaged in the management of the economy, followed the formation of the characters of minor children. The woman wrote out magazines about the upbringing of boys and girls, adopted the experience of the authors of pedagogical articles.
Caring for the younger generation brought positive results: the sister of the sociologist became a doctor, and Brother is a supreme judge. George Elton in an interview with journalists said that he loved his parents and had reasons to be proud of a full-fledged friendly family.
In childhood, under the influence of the grandfather, who studied medicine in the UK, the sister of the draftsman became interested in chemistry and the anatomy of people. In the royal college of Adelaide and the Anglican boarding school, he met like-minded people in the ranks of experienced teachers.
The ancestors hoped that Mao would receive a diploma of the local university, but the young man chose to become independent and left the parent house. He studied at radiologists and surgeons in a special institution in Edinburgh, and then moved to London to build plans for the future.
At the 20th age, George Elton realized that he did not want to be practicing Strajork, and went to West Africa accompanied by friends. After 2 years in the territory of states with original customs, the young man described the impressions of a number of journalistic articles.
Fees and Positive feedback Critics detained a traveler in the UK, he taught English to college for workers and men. Only in early 1905, Mao returned to his homeland, explaining such a solution to a number of objective reasons.
In Adelaide, he became a partner in the prosperous printing company, but this was not enough for an inquisitive mind. The carrier of the intelligent surname joined the university's student community, which was proud of the country at that time.
Under the start of Sir William Mitchell George Elton studied psychology, Anthropologist Bronislav Malinovsky was among his close friends. Together, young people were engaged in experimental scientific research related to the social adaptation of people crumpled into wars.
One of the works of a native Adelaide was awarded the Roby Fletcher award, this allowed to become a bachelor and master of psychological sciences. The new status gave the chances to start a professional career and together with colleagues to observe the phenomena that happened around.
Personal life
A little known about the personal life of the Australian scientist Society, a girl from a prosperous family became the only wife in his youth. Dorothea was related to the anthropologist and ethnographer Ursula Macconel, who worked on the Peninsula of Queensland with uncivilized people.The native of the rural city of the Cresser did not participate in the studies of her husband, she led a household and raised his daughters. In the life of a couple who did not partial over decades, according to acquaintances, there were many happy cloudless days.
The heiress of the sociologist, matured, received a brilliant academic education, Patricia Mao in adulthood continued his father's business. She became the author of the study called The Making Of A Criminal, where described the process of turning a person in an immoral evil liar.
The second child of George Elton chose a creative profession. Gael under the pseudonym Ruth Mao created a number of picturesque paintings. In parallel, the girl was engaged in experiments in the field of literature, but the books were not gained popularity due to unknown reasons.
Scientific activity
The scientific career of the Australian began under the influence of a number of scientists, he read the books of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, published in the 1930s. The adoption of the researcher's methods born in Austria allowed Mao to consolidate in advanced cultural circles.
At the homeland, George Elton's theory was initially not popular, and he moved to America - the country of independent people. At the Textile Factory in Philadelphia, a graduate of the University of Adelaide found the ground for the implementation of the accumulated original ideas.
The contribution to the development of social management was the documented observations of repeating work in a spinning workshop, full of variekther people. With the participation of the Fritz Rotlisberger, a school of human relations appeared, dozens of advanced scientific articles were released in collaboration.
The so-called hotornan experiments conducted by men at the factory located in the city of Cicero received wide fame. Everyone who got acquainted with the works of a couple of psychologists and sociologists at the earliest, was pleasantly surprised.
Mao sought to increase labor productivity by varying the duration of the interruptions and additional motivation of people. The studies took into account the pyramid of needs, invented by the Abraham Oil, and a number of scientifically based ideas described in the books.
Australian with colleagues came to the conclusion that the volume of products depends on informal social models used by employees of workshops. Features of technological processes were due to the logic of moods, labor costs and effectiveness insulated circles.
The doctrine of human relations between leadership and subordinates interested Mary Parker Falllet, incorporated into an unusual experiment. However, the achievements of researchers in the field of management sociology subsequently criticized for the generalization of the results and in places of dubious content.
The world considered the views of George Elton's loan and limited, but this did not affect the volumes of issued and implemented books. Readers who deepened in new paradigms of the emerging management theory, attracted the originality of the approach and convenient to perceive the language.
Death
The circumstances and causes of the death of the Sociologist George Elton Mao were not covered in the media for a wide range of people. This happened at the beginning of the 1949 autumn in the British city, where the scientist worked for a long time.