Brief History of The Tavistock Institue for Human Relations: (Pt 1)

The Tavistock Institute was founded in London in 1946 with the aid of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. [1] It is a not-for-profit think tank, policy and consulting organization. It publishes "Human Relations and host Evaluation: The International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, a scholarly journal. According to their website, they assist organizations:

"Through innovation and change, working with the technical and emotional challenges involved. (They) have consistently been at the cutting edge of participate and action research approaches and applied them, for example, to ground-breaking organisation and evaluation support. (They) integrate different approaches from the social sciences to give our clients a deep understanding of their issues and potential ways forward. (They) bring assumptions to the surface and work with the unpredictable, including what is hidden, and sometimes, unconscious.