---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 470.201"
title: "5"
number: "470.201"
heading: "Purposes of research programs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/470.201"
---

# §470.201. Purposes of research programs.


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

- (a) Develops new knowledge, techniques, and materials about personnel management;
- (b) Seeks solutions to personnel management problems;
- (c) Provides a factual base to support existing or proposed changes in personnel management policies, techniques, and materials;
- (d) Modifies or develops personnel management systems which improve the management of the Federal Government's human resources;
- (e) 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;
- (f) Develops new methods or provides new standards for conducting personnel management research; or
- (g) **Designs systems for the assessment and transmittal of relevant personnel management strategies.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4706.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 2726, Jan. 21, 1983, unless otherwise noted.