Hello,

I am was wondering if you had any suggested resources for the history of engineering/industrial psychology, particularly the contributions of frank and lillian gilbreth. Thank you for your time.

Krista

-- Krista Merry (krista.merry@utoronto.ca), February 11, 2005

Answers

Hugo Münsterberg is considered the father of I-O psychology. See his tests in CHP Documents.

-- Rock Faulkner (rock.faulkner@umontreal.ca), February 11, 2005.

I honestly know almost nothing about this topic. A quick web search, however, brought up a couple of interesting-looking sites:

http://gilbrethnetwork.tripod.com/bio.html

http://www.accel-team.com/scientific/scientific_03.html

There were several otehrs as well. Follow up the references you find there. Although I don't know about the gilbreths' I notice that they were associates of FW Taylor, about which there is TONS of history written.

-- Christopher Green (cgreen@chass.utoronto.ca), February 11, 2005.