Walton E. Burdick Papers
Collection Number: 5937
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Walton E. Burdick Papers,
1954-1993
Collection Number:
5937
Creator:
Burdick, Walton E.
Quantity:
2.8 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Language:
Collection material in English
Walton E. Burdick, IBM senior vice president, personnel, joined the company in
Endicott in 1955.
He subsequently held personnel positions in Endicott, New York; Dayton, New Jersey;
New York City and Greencastle, Indiana. In 1965, he was promoted to director of
personnel relations, corporate headquarters, and in 1967, Mr. Burdick was named
director of personnel, IBM World Trade Corporation. He was promoted to IBM director
of personnel plans and programs in November 1970, and elected a vice president in
June 1972. He was appointed assistant group executive, finance and planning, General
Business Group, in August 1977. He was named IBM vice president, personnel in August
1980, and reports to Mr. John F. Akers, chairman of the board. In January 1989 he
was appointed a member of IBM's Corporate Management Board and was elected an IBM
senior vice president in April of the same year.
Mr. Burdick holds a B.S. Degree from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at
Cornell University where he serves as a member of the Advisory Council. He was
appointed by President Ronald Reagan for two terms as a commissioner on the National
Commission for Employment Policy; and in January 1988 was appointed by President
Reagan as a member of the White House Conference for a Drug Free America. He also
serves on Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). He
is a member and past chairman of Cornell University's Advisory Board for the Center
for Advanced Human Resource Studies and the Business Roundtable Employee Relations
Committee. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) selected him as the
winner of the 1991 Award for Professional Excellence. He has also served on the
National Board of Junior Achievement, the National Leadership Commission on Health
Care, the Board of Directors of the National Alliance of Business, and is active in
several professional organizations.
Names:
Burdick, Walton E.
International Business Machines Corporation,
Archives.
Form and Genre Terms:
Papers (documents)
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:
Walton E. Burdick Papers #5937. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1976 | |
Keynote speaker of the National Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Personnel Administrators, San Diego, 6/2/76. 11 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1982 | |
NAD Recognition Event Speech. 17 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1983 | |
National Personnel Managers Meeting, Nev Orleans, January 20, 1983. 13
p.
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Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1984 | |
Silver Bay Association Invitational Conference on Human Management Issues
in Management, Lake George, 7/11/84. 19 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1986 | |
New York, 9/23/86. 19 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1987 | |
9/8/87. 11 p. and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1987 | |
11/4/87. Unpaged.
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Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1987 | |
11/17/87. 11 p. and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1988 | |
2/88 (Includes related documents and copy of 1985 speech).
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Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1988 | |
3/28/88. 11 p. and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1988 | |
Wall Street Journal, Executive Visit, 4/18/88. Related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1988 | |
includes "Introductory Comments" (6 p.) and "Leadership Study Comments"
(3 p.), July 19-20, 1988.
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Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1988 | |
12/22/88 and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1989 | |
The Conference Board. Key Issues in Human Resources Management: 2nd
Annual West Coast Conference. 5/9/89. 14 p. (Includes tape of
speech.)
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1989 | |
Compensation and Firm Performance Conference. 5/23/89
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Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1989 | |
5/25/89. 13 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 17 | 1989 | |
6/4/89. 16 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 18 | 1989 | |
9/13-15/89. Related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 19 | 1989 | |
9/24/89. 17 p. Includes 39 pages of questions and answers.
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Box 1 | Folder 20-22 | 1989 | |
11/13-14/89. 9 p. Related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 23-24 | 1989 | |
December 5, 1989. 15 p. Related documents (includes tape of speech).
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Box 1 | Folder 25 | 1990 | |
7/24/90. Includes speech outline.
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Box 1 | Folder 26 | 1991 | |
1/22/91. Speech outline.
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Box 1 | Folder 27 | 1991 | |
4/18/91. Outline and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 28 | 1991 | |
5/15/91. Outline and related documents.
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Box 1 | Folder 29 | ||
Includes untitled speech, 25 p.; undated speech, "Full Employment
Communication," 3 p.; and miscellaneous.
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Box 1 | Folder 30 | 1988 | |
2/12/88. 41 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 31 | 1990 | |
12/4/90. 24 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 32 | 1991 | |
6/4/91. 60 p.
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Box 1 | Folder 33 | 1992 | |
Interview with Fortune Magazine, David Kirkpatrick - Reporter, 5/21/92.
(no transcript).
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Box 1 | Folder 34 | 1992 | |
Interview with NY Times. 6/3/92. (no transcript).
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Box 1 | Folder 35 | 1990 | |
Walt Burdick, Don Devey, Leigh Faldi interviewed by Don Machy, 30 p.
undated. Discussion joints, "Management "Project Report" Interview,
1/26/90 V no transcript.
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Box 1 | Folder 36 | ||
undated.
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Box 1 | Folder 37 | 1990 | |
Box 1 | Folder 38 | 1954-1986 | |
Includes organization charts and chronology of major organization
changes
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Box 1 | Folder 39 | 1989 | |
Includes itineraries, country profiles, lists of key contacts and other
related documents re meetings with IBM managers and others.
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Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1985 | |
February 1985.
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Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1986 | |
Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1991 | |
May 1991.
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Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1985 | |
July 1985.
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Box 2 | Folder 5 | ||
undated.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 | ||
undated.
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Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1990 | |
1/8/90.
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Box 2 | Folder 8 | ||
undated.
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Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1991 | |
Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1991 | |
Includes summary of corporate personnel staff's 1991 objectives.
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Box 2 | Folder 11 | ||
undated.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 | 1986 | |
44 p.
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Box 2 | Folder 13 | ||
1940's - 1990's.
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Box 2 | Folder 14 | ||
undated. 31 p.
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Box 2 | Folder 15 | 1984 | |
Box 2 | Folder 16 | 1989 | |
Personnel Managers Meeting, 2/6/89.
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Box 2 | Folder 17 | 1984 | |
Box 2 | Folder 18 | 1991 | |
Cornell University, April 9, 1991.
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Box 2 | Folder 19 | 1985 | |
Box 2 | Folder 20 | ||
n. d. 5 p.
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Box 2 | Folder 21 | 1974 | |
54 p.
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Box 2 | Folder 22 | 1990 | |
Box 2 | Folder 23 | 1990 | |
Box 2 | Folder 24-26 | 1988-1990 | |
Box 2 | Folder 27 | 1990-1993 | |
Box 2 | Folder 28 | 1976- 1991 | |
Box 2 | Folder 29-31 | 1991-1992 | |
Includes reports and publications of the Commission.
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Box 2 | Folder 32-33 | 1989-1992 | |
Includes correspondence with Professor Lee Dyer and Professor Maurice
Neufeld of NYSSILR, Cornell University concerning Burdick's
participation in the School's 50th Anniversary publication, with Lee
Dyer of Cornell's Center for Advanced Human Resource Stu
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Box 2 | Folder 34 | 1988 | |
11/15/88 (Video Cassette) 9 minutes.
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Box 2 | Folder 34 | ||
(Video Cassette) 22 minutes.
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Box 3 | 1984 | ||
(Audio cassette).
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Box 4 | 1985 | ||
(Audio Cassette).
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Box 5 | 1986 | ||
(Audio Cassette).
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Box 6 | 1986 | ||
6/86 (Audio Cassette).
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Box 7 | 1989 | ||
6/8/89 (Audio Cassette).
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Box 8 | 1989 | ||
8/24/89. (Audio Cassette).
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Box 9 | |||
(no date) (Audio Cassette).
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