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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arensberg, Conrad M.,; Arnold, P. M.,; Brown, Paula,; Bryson, Lyman,; Campbell, Angus,; Carver, Emmett K.,; De Gré, Gerard,; Engstrom, Elmer W.,; Flanagan, John C.,; Hartshorne, Edward,; Healy Jr., J. J.,; Hertz, David Bendel,; Lorge, Irving D.,; Milberg, Stanley H.,; Moore, David G.,; Pearse, Robert F.,; Renck, Richard,; Rubenstein, Albert H.,; Shapiro, Theresa R.,; Shepard, Herbert A.,; Shepard, Norman A.,; Shepherd, Clovis,; Steele, Lowell W.,; Thorner, Melvin W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Livingston, Robert Teviot,; Milberg, Stanley H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 1957
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part One. The Expectations and Jobs of Research -- Introduction -- Research Functions in an Industrial Organization -- Problems of Research Organization and Management in the Chemical Industry -- The Creative Mentality in Industrial Research -- Organization, Personalities, and Creative Thought -- What Industry Requires of the Research Worker -- Selection and Development for Research Management: Views of Managers and Some Implications -- Part Two. The Individual and the Research Job -- Introduction -- The Scientist and His Social Role -- Basic Research and the Social System of Pure Science -- Researchers in Industry -- The Professional Employee in Industry -- The Attitudes of Scientists toward Their Jobs -- Rewarding the Industrial Scientist: A Problem in Conflicting Values -- Part Three. Research Organization and the Management Jobs -- Introduction -- Organization and Social Structure in the Laboratory -- The Role of Communications in Research -- Administering Research Organizations -- Liaison Relations in Research and Development -- Bureaucracy in a Government Laboratory -- Factionalism and Organizational Change in a Research Laboratory -- Part Four. Some Aspects of Human Relations -- Introduction -- Research Relationships and Cultural Differences -- Conflicts in the Research Director's Perception of His Role -- Creativity and the Environment of Industrial Research -- Promoting Cooperation in Research -- Panel: Human Relations in Industrial Research -- Part Five. Managerial Technologies -- Introduction -- Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories -- Locating and Developing the Researcher -- Selection Techniques for Research Workers -- The Effect of a Bonus System for Patentable Inventions on Research Productivity -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography