Tavistock Institut gGmbH

The Tavistock Institut gGmbH (TIG) is a not-for-profit organisation based in Cologne (Germany) that aims to improve working life and conditions for people within organisations, communities and societies, conducts research and evaluation, and offers training programmes throughout Europe. It applies social science ideas and methods to problems of policy and practice, change and innovation, and organisational design.

Tavistock Institut gGmbH (TIG) follows the same objectives of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (THIR) including advancing the study of the psycho-sociology of relations) between human beings and groups or classes or categories of human beings, and of the influence of environment in all its aspects on the formation or development of human character or capacity. A particular strength of the Institute’s work is a commitment to the utilisation and implementation of research findings particularly focused in the areas of employment policies, education and training, learning, technology development, partnerships, social capital, local & regional development, and health & social welfare.