Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents IX
4. General Introduction 1
5. Part One. The Expectations and Jobs of Research
6. Introduction 9
7. Research Functions in an Industrial Organization 21
8. Problems of Research Organization and Management in the Chemical Industry 35
9. The Creative Mentality in Industrial Research 45
10. Organization, Personalities, and Creative Thought 60
11. What Industry Requires of the Research Worker 69
12. Selection and Development for Research Management: Views of Managers and Some Implications 80
13. Part Two. The Individual and the Research Job
14. Introduction 95
15. The Scientist and His Social Role 105
16. Basic Research and the Social System of Pure Science 114
17. Researchers in Industry 129
18. The Professional Employee in Industry 138
19. The Attitudes of Scientists toward Their Jobs 151
20. Rewarding the Industrial Scientist: A Problem in Conflicting Values 163
21. Part Three. Research Organization and the Management Jobs
22. Introduction 179
23. Organization and Social Structure in the Laboratory 185
24. The Role of Communications in Research 197
25. Administering Research Organizations 208
26. Liaison Relations in Research and Development 222
27. Bureaucracy in a Government Laboratory 241
28. Factionalism and Organizational Change in a Research Laboratory 263
29. Part Four. Some Aspects of Human Relations
30. Introduction 281
31. Research Relationships and Cultural Differences 287
32. Conflicts in the Research Director's Perception of His Role 296
33. Creativity and the Environment of Industrial Research 301
34. Promoting Cooperation in Research 309
35. Panel: Human Relations in Industrial Research 323
36. Part Five. Managerial Technologies
37. Introduction 347
38. Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories 349
39. Locating and Developing the Researcher 361
40. Selection Techniques for Research Workers 380
41. The Effect of a Bonus System for Patentable Inventions on Research Productivity 392
42. Appendix 403
43. Selected Bibliography 413