| Code | BPS/GB/45 |
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| Name | Cherns; Albert (1922-1987); Professor; FBPsS |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Albert |
| Surname | Cherns |
| Dates | 1922-1987 |
| Epithet | FBPsS |
| Parallel Name | Cherns |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born 1922 Died Sussex 1987 |
| Address | Old Poor House, Rodmell, East Sussex |
| Relationships | Wife, Barbara [nd] |
| Activity | Albert Cherns, B.A. (Hons.) Professor of Social Sciences and Head of Department of Social Sciences (1966-1984), Loughborough University; Fellow British Psychological Society; Governor, British Steel Industry's Ashorne Hill College;
Member, Tavistock Institute Council. Senior appointments in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Secretary of the Heyworth Committee that recommended the establishment of a British Social Science Research Council.Cherns established the Centre for the Utilization of Social Sciences (CUSSR) with key linkages to the Tavistock Institute, to ISR at Ann Arbor (Stan Seashore) and to UCLA (Lou Davis). His extensive network included Eric Miller, Eric Trist, Lou Davis, (Open Sociotechnical School & QWL), Joan Woodward and Chris Freeman. Cherns key project was to be involved in the organizational design of the new John Player factory from 1967-1972. Cherns retired from Loughborough in 1984 and died in 1987.
Sources: http://moderntimesworkplace.com/good_reading/archives/ericsess/sessvol2/46CONTRI.pdf and
This record requires updating when more information becomes available. A full listing of Cherns' books is available via Google books at http://print.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=albert+cherns
Photo courtesy of the Archivist, Loughborough University Archives, taken from Len Cantor's, 'Loughborough University of Technology: Past & Present' (1990).
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | At SSRC Cherns did his best to promote the sociology of workplaces, probably the most comprehensive
publicity the subject has had in this country. |
| Related Name | BPS/GB/91 |
| PublishedWorks | Studying the client's role in construction management
AB Cherns, DT Bryant - Construction Management and Economics, 1984
The principles of socio-technical systems design
AB Cherns - Human Relations, 1976
Behavioral Science Engagements: Taxonomy and Dynamics
AB Cherns - Human Relations, 1976 - hum.sagepub.com
Alienation and accountancy
AB Cherns - Accounting, Organizations and Society, 1978
The principles of socio-technical system design revisited
AB CHERNS - Human Relations, 1987
The Quality of Working Life: Problems
LE Davis, AB Cherns - Prospects, and the State of the Art (Free Press, New York), 1975
Models for the use of research
AB Cherns - Hum. Rel, 1972
An Application of Parsons's Macrosystem Model to the Organizational Level and the Sociotechnical …
AB Cherns, GJ Wacker - Human Relations, 1978 - hum.sagepub.com
Vol. 31, No. 10, 823-841 (1978)
Can behavioral science help design organizations
AB Cherns - Organizational Dynamics, 1977
Action reseach
AB Cherns - The quality of working life, 1975
The quality of working life (Vols. 1 and 2). Problems, prospects and the state of the …
LE DAVIS, AB CHERNS - 1975 - New York: The Free Press
Quality of Working Life: Problems, Prospects, and State of the Art
LE Davis, AB Cherns - Free Press: New York
The Quality of Working Life (Vols. 1 & 2)
LE Davis, AB Cherns - New York, 1975
Social Science and Government: Policies and Problems
AB Cherns, R Sinclair, WI Jenkins - 2003
The international Behavioural and Social Sciences Library SOCIAL SCIENCE
AND GOVERNMENT TAVISTOCK Page 2. SOCIOLOGY & SOCIAL POLICY ...
Social science research policies in the United States
AB Cherns - Minerva, 1971
CHERNS, A. B. Helping managers: What the social scientist needs to know. Organizational Dynamics, Winter 1973, 51-67.
Albert CHERNS, "Perspectives On The Quality Of Working Life", Journal
Of Occupational Psychology, (1975), Vol: 48, s. 162. ... |
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| Source | Sources: http://moderntimesworkplace.com/good_reading/archives/ericsess/sessvol2/46CONTRI.pdf and
This record requires updating when more information becomes available. A full listing of Cherns' books is available via Google books at http://print.google.co.uk/books?lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=albert+cherns
Photo courtesy of the Archivist, Loughborough University Archives, taken from Len Cantor's, 'Loughborough University of Technology: Past & Present' (1990). |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |