LOCKE, H.W

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Person

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Biographical Text

Locke was a consultant specialising in personnel management, or as we would say today, human resource management. It is possible that he undertook work for Rowntree, as Seebohm Rowntree wrote the introduction to one of his books. No other certain information is known about him. 

Major works:
(with P. Hall) 
Incentives and Contentment: A Study Made in a British Factory. 

Fundementals of Personnel Management, 1943. 

Original Source

Lecture:
‘An experiment in training foremen’, April 1929, Balliol College

Citation

“LOCKE, H.W,” The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement, accessed March 29, 2024, https://rowntree.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/713.