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Eric Trist fonds
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Culture as a psycho-social process

File consists of drafts of a paper based on a presentation contributed to the Symposium on the Concept of Culture and later revised for a celebration book in honour of Sir Frederic Bartlett. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Discovering common ground

File consists of correspondence and drafts pertaining to Discovering Common Ground: How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and Collaborative Action by Marv Weisbord.

Dover County School photographs

File consists of mounted group portraits of sporting and military groups of which Trist was a member during his time at the Dover School for Boys, England.

Early life and biographical records

Series consists of records pertaining to Trist's early life, education and biography. Early life records include family photographs, elementary school records, student records from Cambridge and Yale Universities, drawings and poetry created by Trist, and other material. Biographical records include: writings about Trist by others; curricula vitae; records related to Trist's honorary LLD from York University; obituaries and memorial records; and records pertaining to Trist's biography, Behavior, Technology, and Organizational Development: Eric Trist and the Tavistock Institute, by Richard Trahair (Transaction, 2015).

Employment alternatives for the eighties

File consists of a paper presented to Urban Seminar Six: Full Employment: Social Questions for Public Policy, November 30, 1978. This paper was used as source material for the book Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, edited by Trist (Tavistock, 1990).

Engaging with large-scale systems

File consists of a paper, "Engaging with Large-Scale Systems: Some Concepts and Methods Based on Experience Gained in Field Projects at the Tavistock Institute," contributed by Trist to the McGregor Conference on Organizational Development, Endicott House, 1967.

Eric Trist fonds

  • F0681
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-2014, predominant 1919-1993

Fonds consists of records pertaining to the life and work of social scientist Eric Trist. Records include photographs and textual material pertaining to Trist's early life and education in Dover, England, student records from his time at Cambridge and Yale Universities, and material related to his career as a theorist and academic in the fields of psychology and organizational development. These latter records consist of publications, presentations and other writings authored or co-authored by Eric Trist, records pertaining to Trist's teaching career in both the United States and Canada, and material related to the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, of which Trist was a founding member.

Trist, Eric Lansdown, 1909-1993

Eric's drawings

File consists of a drawing of Dover Castle by Trist, as well as miscellaneous prints and invoices.

Eric's school reports

File consists of report cards on Trist's progress as a student at the County School in Dover, UK, issued by the Kent Education Committee.

Eric's school reports

  • 2016-004/002(3)
  • File
  • 1925-1956, predominant 1925-1928
  • Part of Eric Trist fonds

File consists of report cards on Trist's progress as a student at the County School in Dover, UK, issued by the Kent Education Committee. Also includes a programme for the dedication and opening of a memorial pavillion, held at the Dover Grammar School for Boys, June 26, 1954.

Family photographs

File consists of mounted photographs of Trist and his family, including photographs of his cousins, adopted sister, family friend, and father. The latter includes photographs pertaining to his father's career as a British naval officer.

Field projects

File consists of a list of field projects, as well as figures excerpted from reports and publications.

Group photograph

Item is an unidentified mounted group portrait of Trist and others, taken by Bassano Ltd. Photography studio, 38 Dover Street, London.

Guilty of enthusiasm

File consists of an autobiographic account of Trist's life, taken from interviews between Trist and Richard Trahair in 1989, published in Management Laureates: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays, 1993.

Herrick, Neal

File consists of correspondence with third parties about material related to David Philip Herbst.

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