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THOMAS
G. CODY
Executive
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission;
Assistant Secretary for Administration,
Department
of Housing and Urban Development:
Papers,
(1969) 1972‑1976 (1979)
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION
Fragmentary materials, including both manuscript and printed or near‑print
items, documenting his government service. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
papers, 1972‑74, include information on the development and
implementation of policy and staff training and management. The Department of Housing and Urban Development
papers, 1974‑76, relate primarily to internal departmental administration
and organization.
QUANTITY
2.4 linear feet
(ca. 4,800 pages)
DONOR
Thomas G. Cody
(accession number 83‑57)
ACCESS
Open. Some items are temporarily restricted under
terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or
under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR
1256).
COPYRIGHT
Thomas G. Cody
has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his
unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other
individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees
as part of their official duties are in the public domain.
Prepared by Gregory Kinney &
William McNitt, April 1989
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Thomas G. Cody
Feb. 19, 1929 Born, Holyoke, MA
1950 A.B., College
of the Holy Cross
1950‑52 Graduate Studies,
Boston College
1953‑55 United States
Marine Corps
1955‑57 M.B.A., Harvard
University
1956‑62 Various
sales and marketing positions in several corporations
1962‑72 Fry Consultants,
Inc., international management consulting firm. He became a vice‑president in 1966, a
partner in 1967, and managed the Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices of the
firm.
1972‑74 Executive
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
1974‑76 Assistant Secretary
for Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development
1976‑ L.B. Knights
and Associates and Thomas G. Cody and Associates, management consulting firms
INTRODUCTION
Thomas G. Cody was a former management
consultant who served as Executive Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) from May 1972 to April 1974.
Following his resignation from the EEOC, Cody became Assistant Secretary
for Administration in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in
which position he served until November 1976.
The Cody Papers consist of fragmentary materials concerning his
administrative and management work in both agencies.
The EEOC is an
independent government commission created in 1965 to administer Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Principal activities of the Commission include
the development and implementation of equal employment opportunity policy and
the investigation of complaints of racial, sexual or other forms of employment
discrimination in both the public and private sectors. In the position of
Executive Director, Cody was responsible for the day‑to‑day
management of the EEOC under the direction of the Commission's Chairman. Disagreements with Commission Chairman John
Powell led Cody to announce his resignation in March 1974.
When Cody joined
HUD in 1974, the department was under criticism for its management and
personnel problems. Cody and his staff
were responsible for addressing these problems and providing administrative
support for the Secretary, Under Secretary, other Assistant Secretaries, and
the department's field operations. Major functional areas of operation included
budget, finances and accounting, personnel, contracting, management and organization
systems, and computer operations.
The materials
from both of Cody's positions are fragmentary. Many items are either
publications or near‑print items which were widely distributed. Only occasional letters and memoranda appear.
Cody apparently left the bulk of his files with the two agencies.
The EEOC
materials consist mainly of manuals and reports concerning equal employment
laws, staff procedures and guidelines, and summaries of Commission
activities. The HUD materials deal
primarily with internal administrative matters such as departmental
reorganization, implementation of new management and accounting systems, and
adoption of automated data processing systems.
Questions of housing policy are dealt with only tangentially.
Related
Materials (April 1989):
The White House
Central Files Subject File contains related materials in categories FG 24
(Department of Housing and Urban Development), FG 109 (Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission), and HU 2‑2 (Equality ‑ Employment).
Series
Descriptions
1‑4 Equal Employment
Reports, manuals
and handbooks, planning documents, printed material and occasional memoranda
created by the EEOC staff, other government agencies, and outside
consultants. Topics include:
investigations of discrimination complaints, investigative procedures and
training of investigators, staff productivity and performance measurement, and
historical development of equal employment opportunity law. The series includes scattered materials pre‑dating
and post‑dating Cody's service with the Commission.
Arranged
alphabetically by subject.
4‑6 Department of Housing and Urban
Development Papers, 1974‑76. (1.0 linear feet)
Reports,
department organization charts, printed material and occasional letters and
memoranda relating to the administrative structure and management of HUD. Subjects covered include: reorganization of
the department, personnel management, implementation of a goals management
system, departmental productivity, adoption of automated data processing
systems, and the mortgage insurance accounting program.
Arranged
alphabetically by subject.
Container
List
Chronology of
EEOC Guidelines, 1964‑77
Compliance
Manual (1)‑(2)
Conciliation
Standards for Compliance Personnel
Comptroller
General Report on EEOC Progress in Eliminating Employment
Discrimination
Elimination of
Discrimination in Employment by Affirmative Government Action ‑
Draft Project
Manual (1)‑(6)
Employment
Discrimination Law
Equal Employment
Law and Litigation (1)‑(4)
Equal Employment
Opportunity Performance Measurement
Field Office
Reports on Office of Compliance Performance Management System
Plan for FY1974
Foundations of
Equal Employment
Guidelines for
Investigation of Employment Discrimination
Guidelines on
Employment Discrimination
Interagency
Committee on Handicapped Employees
Investigative
Training Program
Michigan Civil
Rights Commission Investigation Process
Minority
Employment Reports of Various Corporations
Miscellaneous
Memoranda
New Regulatory
Framework (Publication)
Office of Compliance
‑ Summary of Activity FY1972
Office of
General Counsel ‑ Performance Management System Plan
Organization and
Management Survey
Papers Relating
to the President's Departmental Reorganization Program
(Publication)
Promise and
Performance ‑ President Nixon's First Term (Publication)
Reference Manual
to Title VII Law
Report to Carter
Transition Team on EEOC
Resignation ‑
Cody
Uniform
Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures
Work Process at
EEOC
Department of
Housing and Urban Development Papers
Administrative
Reorganization
Administrative
Reorganization ‑ Consultants Reports
Administrative
Support Task Force Report
Appointment and
Swearing‑In Ceremony
Automated Data
Processing
Award Ceremony,
12/7/76
Biographical
Information ‑ Cody
Correspondence ‑
Miscellaneous
Correspondence ‑
Personal
Department of
Housing and Urban Development ‑ Organization Charts
Departmental
Productivity
Financial
Management
Goals Management
System
Housing in the
Seventies (Publication)
Housing
Performance Indicators (Publication)
Interim Report
on Urban Development and Neighborhood Revitalization
Management
Process
Mortgage
Insurance Accounting System (1)‑(3)
Mortgage
Insurance Accounting System (4)‑(7)
Personnel
Management
Planning
Resignation ‑
Cody
Staff Management
Program FY1977‑78
Urban Data Book
(1)‑(2)
Workshop on the
Role of Assistant Secretaries in Executive Branch Departments
(1)‑(2)
