Dearborn Group Records, 1951-1973
Collection Number: 5569

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Dearborn Group Records, 1951-1973
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5569
Abstract:
Biannual meeting minutes, research files, and correspondence.
Creator:
Dearborn Group
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The Dearborn Conference Group is an organization of directors of Industrial Relations Research Departments in several large U.S. corporations.
The Dearborn Group includes representatives from major corporations in the automotive, chemical, food processing, paper manufacturing, petroleum, petrochemical, steel, telecommunications and textile industries as well as corporate officers with similar responsibilities representing major utilities, the retail trade and an insurance carrier. Their objectives in meeting as a group are the futherance of industrial relations research methodology, information exchange about industrial relations experiences, and the promotion of industrial relations research.

The Dearborn Conference Group's records consist of files relating to its biannual meetings, 1951-1971 (4 bound volumes), research files (6 bound volumes) arranged in alphabetical order by corporate name, and correspondence between Conference Group participants on the Group's activities (4 volumes).
The meeting files consist of agenda, minutes, reports, summaries of accomplishments, and supporting correspondence. Research activities regarding particular aspects of labor-management relations and personnel management, including methods of predicting and measuring leadership abilities, techniques for the management and development of employees, performance appraisal, and the evaluation of future trends in personnel management, especially union activities and trends in benefits, are discussed both at the meeting and in subsequent correspondence.
The corporate research project files contain outlines and reports of then current industrial relations projects with supporting documentation. Included are studies on compensation (wages and hours), benefit plans, internal management planning, employee selection, employee development, employee testing, safety education and programs, labor-management relations, and trends in collective bargaining, among other issues.
Compilation of materials regarding the biannual Dearborn Conference Meetings, including agenda, minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, notes and summaries.
The Dearborn Conference Group's records consist of files relating to its biannual meetings, 1951-1971 (4 bound volumes), research files (6 bound volumes) arranged in alphabetical order by corporate name, and correspondence between Conference Group participants on the Group's activities (4 volumes).
The meeting files consist of agenda, minutes, reports, summaries of accomplishments, and supporting correspondence. Research activities regarding particular aspects of labor-management relations and personnel management, including methods of predicting and measuring leadership abilities, techniques for the management and development of employees, performance appraisal, and the evaluation of future trends in personnel management, especially union activities and trends in benefits, are discussed both at the meeting and in subsequent correspondence.
The corporate research project files contain outlines and reports of then current industrial relations projects with supporting documentation. Included are studies on compensation (wages and hours), benefit plans, internal management planning, employee selection, employee development, employee testing, safety education and programs, labor-management relations, and trends in collective bargaining, among other issues.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS

Preferred Citation

Dearborn Group Records #5569. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5634: Dearborn Group Additional Records

SUBJECTS

Names:
Dearborn Conference Group
Subjects:
Automobile industry workers. United States.
Chemical workers. United States.
Collective bargaining. Automobile industry. United States.
Collective bargaining. Chemical industry. United States.
Collective bargaining. Paper industry. United States.
Collective bargaining. Petroleum industry. United States.
Collective bargaining. Steel industry. United States.
Collective bargaining. Telecommunication. United States.
Collective bargaining. Textile industry. United States.
Employee selection--United States.
Employee training directors--United States.
Executives--Training of--United States.
Food industry. Emplooyees. United States.
Industrial relations--Research--United States.
Job evaluation--United States.
Paper industry workers. United States.
Performance appraisal.
Personnel directors.
Personnel management--United States.
Personnel research.
Petroleum chemicals industry. Industrial relations. United States.
Petroleum industry. Employees. United States.
Retail trade. Employees. United States.
Safety education, Industrial.
Steel industry and trade. Employees. United States.
Telecommunication. Employees. United States.
Textile industry. Employees. United States.
Wages--United States.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
"Selectied Highlights from Dearborn's First Decade, 1951-1959." by Robert Barmein; "Dearborn Conference File Summary of Contents." June, 1955; "Dearborn Conference." Reports, Statements, and Surveys.
Box 1 Folder 1
Dearborn Conference File Summary
1951-1954
Scope and Contents
Large booklet containing appendices
Box 1 Folder 2
Selected Highlights from Dearborn Group's First Decade
1951-1959
Scope and Contents
"Confidential" summaries by date; 5/21/1951 - 10/22- 3/1959
Box 1 Folder 3
Dearborn Conference Group
1955
Scope and Contents
"Management Development Objectives" March 8 1955
Box 1 Folder 4
"Dearborn Conference"
1951-1963
Scope and Contents
Research and Information
Box 1 Folder 5
"Dearborn Conference"
1951-1957
Scope and Contents
Includes biographies, etc.
Box 1 Folder 6
"Dearborn Conference"
1952-1963
Box 2
"Dearborn Conference." Reports, Statements, and Surveys, AT&T- U.S. Rubber.
Box 2 Folder 1
Dearborn Conference
1951-1962
Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
Box 2 Folder 2
Dearborn Group
1951-1972
Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
Box 2 Folder 3
Dearborn Group
1952-1959
Scope and Contents
Contains highly detailed information on companies
Box 3
"Dearborn Conference." Reports, Statements, and Surveys, AT&T- U.S. Rubber; "Dearborn Conference Meetings." 1951-1973.
Box 3 Folder 1
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1951-1952
Box 3 Folder 2
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1955-1965
Box 3 Folder 3
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1953-1954
Box 3 Folder 4
Dearborn Conference
1951-1971
Scope and Contents
Some papers labeled "Confidential"
Box 3 Folder 5
Dearborn Conference
1952-1965
Box 3 Folder 6
Dearborn Conference
1968
Scope and Contents
Contains a study on employees by race and ethnicity
Box 4
"Dearborn Conference Meetings." 1951-1973; "Dearborn Conference- General Correspondence and Exchange. American Cork- Socony Vacuum.".
Box 4 Folder 1
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1971-1973
Box 4 Folder 2
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1966-1970
Box 4 Folder 3
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1971
Scope and Contents
November 11-12, 1971
Box 4 Folder 4
Dearborn Conference Meetings
1966-1970
Box 4 Folder 5
Industry and Employee Relations Research
1951-1959
Scope and Contents
5/21/1951 - 10/22-23/1959; "Confidential"
Box 4 Folder 6
Dearborn Conference, Correspondence and Exchange
1951-1956
Box 4 Folder 7
Correspondence and Exchange, General.
1951-1957
Box 4 Folder 8
Dearborn Conference, Correspondence and Exchange
1954-1957