| Description | File consists of Albert Cherns' papers contained in 6- brown envelopes, 3- folders , 4- clear wallet folders and 1-printed document of
The Brown envelopes are wrapped in a white page [ A4 size] with a handwritten title of:
'Lecture Notes and Assessments-re: Management- Organisational Design, Corn Products (CPC)'.
Each of the 5-envelopes has a handwritten title to the front as follows:
No.1 envelope is entitled 'The Foreman' containing; 6- overhead projector transparencies of block relationship charts
No.2 envelope is entitled 'Social Systems' containing, 10- A4 photocopied pages of printed documents concerning Social Systems Analysis
No.3 envelope is entitled 'Social Support Systems; Roles, Rewards, Careers and Training' containing; 12- overhead projector transparencies of analytical diagrams
No.4 envelope is entitled 'Steering Group etc..'containing; 7- overhead projector transparencies of handwritten notes concerning Steering committees, 6- handwritten copies of the aforementioned transparencies, 1- printed draft letter from Cherns to D.V.Greenwood dated 26, Sept.1986 and 1- handwritten page of notes
No.5 envelope is entitled 'Principles of Design' containing, 8- overhead projector transparencies entitled '10 principles of Socio-Technical Design', 5- photocopy documents of certain sections of the aforementioned tests, 1- clear plastic wallet containing; 3- 8-page copies of an essay entitled 'Environmental Systems Analysis Part One: Trends and Responses' and a 5-page handwritten document entitled 'Technical Systems Analysis'
No.6 envelope is entitled 'C.P.C. Xparencies, Tech-Systems' containing; 16- transparencies of System Analysis and 6- pages of printed system diagrams and drawings.
Folder No.1 [blue] is entitled 'Europe' containing 12- printed provisional texts from the O.E.C.D. Paris, Labour/Management, International Management Seminar on Advances in Work Organisation
9-printed provisional texts in the seminar series : 'Experience of Advances in Work Organisation' entitled:
'1. Shell (United Kingdom) and the Shell Company of Australia' by D.N.Leich
'2. Imperial Chemical Industries' by T.B.Owen
'3. Sadolin and Holmblad' by Kaj Poulsen
'4. Philips' by H.Gelling
'5. Bamshoeve' by J.T. Allegro
'6. The Aker Group' by Jakob Holden
'7. Four Swedish Cases' by R.Lindholm
'8. The Baekaert Group' by K.Vervaeke
'10. Olivetti' by Federico Butera
1- Printed provisional text entitled 'Work Organisation: Present and Future, Outline of Report ' by R.Decosterd
1- Printed provisional text entitled 'Labour/Management Co-operation for Productivity and Job Satisfaction' by P.L.Dronkers
1- photocopy of a Swedish magazine article entitled 'Ecology of Man and Production Design' by Jan Parsson
4- photocopied pages of an article in UQ dated Winter 1974 entitled 'Democratizing a Dutch Sosiology Institute' by Maurice Punch, 17 pages of printed documents entitled 'Network Notes' No.6, Jan.1982
2- typed letters from Oscar Ortsman to Cherns dated Sept.10th, 1974 and Sept 20th 1974
22-pages of a document entitled 'Organisation du Traveil et Qualitie de Vie, Dans L'Enterprise, Projet d'article a paraitre dans la revue Preuves, Aout 1974, 2- printed pages of a bibliography,
2 -press cuttings from the desk of Loius E.Davis, 1975, 16-page printed document entitled 'Letter from an American Economist in Paris'
1- photocopy of a journal entitled 'Personnel Review' Vol.1 Number 2, Spring 1972 [with an article by Cherns inside]
Folder No.2 [ cream] is entitled 'Pornography and Respect for Women, Garry, Ann: containing: 14 pages of a an extract from a book of Social Theory and Practice entitled 'Pornography and Respect for Women'
Folder No.3 [lemon] is untitled and contains handwritten drafts of correspondence, meetings, reviews, revised papers and greneral notes as follows:
1- draft handwritten letter to Michael Foster, Tavistock Centre, 1- to J.C. W?, Notting Hill Gate
and 1- to Jennifer Platt, 9- pages of handwritten notes concerning a meeting at L.D.D.C. [Docklands], 4th April 1984, 2- yellow pages of notes concerning the IX World congress of ISA
3-pages of a handwritten draft review of Mateyko's book, 11-pages of a draft paper concerning Policy Analysis, 11- pages of handwritten draft review of Chern's entitled 'Principles of Sociotechnical Design Revisited' 11-pages of a handwritten draft paper concerning design [ figure 2 to the front page], 2- handwritten draft pages of an essay entitled 'British Mining Studies' 9-pages of miscellaneous handwritten notes and 1- handwritten card file concerning two-authors and their book
1- clear wallet folder containing: a handwritten draft report entitled 'Report to QWL Joint Committee for 1981'
1- clear wallet folder containing; 2- transparencies and 2 photocopied printed documents concerning contextual Variables
1- clear wallet folder [pocket] containing; 6- handwritten pages of notes entitled ' Social Science, Orgs and Society' and 3- transparencies
1- clear wallet folder containing; 3- transparencies, 2- printed pages of a document entitled New Age Systems and 2-pages of a handwritten meeting schedule |
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