Human Relations in Industrial Research Management : Including Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Conferences on Industrial Research Columbia University, 1955 and 1956 / Robert Teviot Livingston, Stanley H. Milberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Livingston, Robert Teviot, editor.

Milberg, Stanley H., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1957]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of essays on a general theory of management using the field of research as a point of reference. It includes essays on the expectations of jobs of research, the individual and the research job, Research organization and the management jobs, aspects of human relations, and managerial technologies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

General Introduction

Part One. The Expectations and Jobs of Research

Introduction

Research Functions in an Industrial Organization / Arnold, P. M.

Problems of Research Organization and Management in the Chemical Industry / Healy Jr., J. J.

The Creative Mentality in Industrial Research / Hertz, David Bendel

Organization, Personalities, and Creative Thought / Carver, Emmett K.

What Industry Requires of the Research Worker / Engstrom, Elmer W.

Selection and Development for Research Management: Views of Managers and Some Implications / Milberg, Stanley H.

Part Two. The Individual and the Research Job

The Scientist and His Social Role / De Gré, Gerard

Basic Research and the Social System of Pure Science / Shepard, Herbert A.

Researchers in Industry / Bryson, Lyman

The Professional Employee in Industry / Moore, David G. / Renck, Richard

The Attitudes of Scientists toward Their Jobs / Shapiro, Theresa R.

Rewarding the Industrial Scientist: A Problem in Conflicting Values / Steele, Lowell W.

Part Three. Research Organization and the Management Jobs

Organization and Social Structure in the Laboratory / Shepard, Herbert A.

The Role of Communications in Research / Hertz, David Bendel / Rubenstein, Albert H.

Administering Research Organizations / Campbell, Angus

Liaison Relations in Research and Development / Rubenstein, Albert H.

Bureaucracy in a Government Laboratory / Brown, Paula

Factionalism and Organizational Change in a Research Laboratory / Brown, Paula / Shepherd, Clovis

Part Four. Some Aspects of Human Relations

Research Relationships and Cultural Differences / Arensberg, Conrad M.

Conflicts in the Research Director's Perception of His Role / Lorge, Irving D.

Creativity and the Environment of Industrial Research / Thorner, Melvin W.

Promoting Cooperation in Research / Shepard, Norman A.

Panel: Human Relations in Industrial Research

Part Five. Managerial Technologies

Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories / Steele, Lowell W.

Locating and Developing the Researcher / Pearse, Robert F.

Selection Techniques for Research Workers / Flanagan, John C.

The Effect of a Bonus System for Patentable Inventions on Research Productivity / Hartshorne, Edward

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231884006

0231884001

OCLC:

1100453688