§ 470.201 - Purposes of research programs.

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The purposes of research programs undertaken under this subpart are to stimulate and conduct personnel management research which:

Develops new knowledge, techniques, and materials about personnel management;

Seeks solutions to personnel management problems;

Provides a factual base to support existing or proposed changes in personnel management policies, techniques, and materials;

Modifies or develops personnel management systems which improve the management of the Federal Government's human resources;

Gathers, makes explicit, systematizes, and transmits the knowledge and techniques of practicing managers for the guidance of others and as a factual basis for research needs determination;

Develops new methods or provides new standards for conducting personnel management research; or

Designs systems for the assessment and transmittal of relevant personnel management strategies.