Abbreviation | TIHR |
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Formation | 20 September 1947 |
Founders | Elliott Jaques, Henry Dicks, Leonard Browne, Ronald Hargreaves, John Rawlings Rees, Mary Luff, Wilfred Bion, and Tommy Wilson |
Legal status | Charity |
Purpose | To improve working life and conditions for people within organisations, communities and broader societies |
Headquarters | Gee Street, London |
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Region | United Kingdom |
Services | action research, organisational development and change consultancy, evaluation, executive coaching and professional development |
Fields | Social Science: trans-disciplinary |
CEO | Dr Eliat Aram |
Parent organization | The Tavistock Association[1][2] |
Website | www |
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a British research and consulting organisation, specialising in how people behave in groups and organisations. Staff use social science methods to address research questions and creative, psychoanalytic and systems approaches to work with organisations and individuals. The Institute is a non-profit (UK charity No.209706) that aims to enable learning and change that will benefit people and the planet. There are sister organisations in China and Germany.
It was formally established in September 1947. It publishes a peer-reviewed journal Human Relations with Sage Publications[3] and it hosts the journal Evaluation. The Institute is located in Gee Street in Clerkenwell, London.[4]