Dearborn Group Records
Collection Number: 5569
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Dearborn Group Records, 1951-1973
Collection Number:
5569
Creator:
Dearborn Group
Quantity:
2 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), correspondence.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Biannual meeting minutes, research files, and
correspondence.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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.
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Correspondence
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Dearborn Group Records #5569. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | |||
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1951-1954 | |
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Large booklet containing appendices
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1951-1959 | |
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"Confidential" summaries by date; 5/21/1951 - 10/22- 3/1959
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1955 | |
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"Management Development Objectives" March 8 1955
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1951-1963 | |
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Research and Information
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1951-1957 | |
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Includes biographies, etc.
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1952-1963 | |
| Box 2 | |||
| Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1951-1962 | |
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Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1951-1972 | |
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Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1952-1959 | |
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Contains highly detailed information on companies
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| Box 3 | |||
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | 1951-1952 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | 1955-1965 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | 1953-1954 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | 1951-1971 | |
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Some papers labeled "Confidential"
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| Box 3 | Folder 5 | 1952-1965 | |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | 1968 | |
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Contains a study on employees by race and ethnicity
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| Box 4 | |||
| Box 4 | Folder 1 | 1971-1973 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 | 1966-1970 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | 1971 | |
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November 11-12, 1971
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| Box 4 | Folder 4 | 1966-1970 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | 1951-1959 | |
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5/21/1951 - 10/22-23/1959; "Confidential"
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| Box 4 | Folder 6 | 1951-1956 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | 1951-1957 | |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 | 1954-1957 | |