§470.201. Purposes of research programs.

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