Catalogue description Department of Employment: Research and Planning Division, Work Research Unit: Registered Files (CPS Series)

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Details of LAB 119
Reference: LAB 119
Title: Department of Employment: Research and Planning Division, Work Research Unit: Registered Files (CPS Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Work Research Unit. The majority of selected files relate to the Tri-partite Steering Group on Job Satisfaction and the research programme recommended by it. Other files relate to psychological aspects of work.
Date: 1972-1984
Related material:

For further records of the Tripartite Steering Group on Job Satisfaction, see LAB 118
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CPS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Employment, Work Research Unit, 1974-1986
Physical description: 15 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2008 Department for Work and Pensions

from 2001 Department for Education and Employment
Custodial history: Transferred to the Employment Department in 1988 and the Department for Education and Employment in 1995.
Accumulation dates: File series ran from 1974 to 1986
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Work Research Unit was set up as part of the Research and Planning Division in 1974. Its function was to provide advice to firms on job design and work organisation in the areas of job satisfaction and efficiency. The Unit took over secretarial duties for the Tripartite Steering Group on Job Satisfaction from the Central Information Service. In 1981 the Unit became part of the Economic and Social division and in 1986 was moved to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. The Tripartite Steering Group appears to have been wound up at this time.

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