ABSTRACT
Less than a year after the split was accepted in December 1961, E. L. Trist spoke about the original mission of the Institute at its Annual General Meeting, June 1962. He began by reviewing events between September 1961 and the decision that the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations split formally that December. The Trists would remember this split for many years until the rancour faded. In 1994, Beulah would recall that although Eric would forgive Rice his role in the split, it was difficult to forget his apparent ingratitude at being rescued from the disgrace of being sacked from the Industrial Welfare Society in 1946. The split raised an old problem that Trist had puzzled over ten years earlier: how to formalize collaboration between social science professionals in their Institute and staff in an industrial enterprise. A new kind of institution was called for that would deploy professional expertise for the interests of an enterprise, a hospital, or a university.
