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Managing Creativity in Science and Hi-Tech [electronic resource] /by Ronald Kay.

by Kay, Ronald [author.]; SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : 2012.Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.Description: XIX, 193 p. online resource.ISBN: 9783642246357.Subject(s): Economics | Engineering | Economics/Management Science | R & D/Technology Policy | Job Careers in Science and Engineering | Business/Management Science, general | Economics/Management Science, generalDDC classification: 338.926 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction -- Outline -- Is there a Need to Manage Creative People? -- Managing your Own Work -- Qualifications of Managers -- Managing a Project -- Managing a Department or Small Enterprise -- Managing Creative People in the High-Tech Environment -- Evaluation of Research and Development -- Administrative Skills -- Starting a New Enterprise or New Project -- Financing Creativity -- Organizational Culture -- Impact of National Culture -- What the Behavioral Sciences Have to Offer -- Management Training Opportunities -- Recommended Reading.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: Addressing the issues unique to managers of creative technical staff, this guide reflects not only Ronald Kay’s long experience observing and teaching successful management techniques, but also treats the expanding challenges due to increasingly globally-based projects and staff. As before, Kay’s guide helps readers to prepare themselves, graduate students and others to understand and improve their managerial skills and covers such practical, yet sometimes overlooked, steps such as: individual and team behavior of creative  technical staff; managing their own and others’ R&D projects; hiring, evaluating and compensating technical staff; R&D proposals and administrative functions; and presentations, meetings and organizational culture. New to this edition are a chapter on the global impact of high-tech enterprises and sections on the roles of foundations and government funding and task-force participation. Also tackled are the basics of starting, financing and staffing venture-capital-funded enterprises. What’s more, this book also serves to increase the awareness and knowledge base of anyone who needs to meet the challenge of managing people with the creative energies that drive technologically-based economic growth.
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Introduction -- Outline -- Is there a Need to Manage Creative People? -- Managing your Own Work -- Qualifications of Managers -- Managing a Project -- Managing a Department or Small Enterprise -- Managing Creative People in the High-Tech Environment -- Evaluation of Research and Development -- Administrative Skills -- Starting a New Enterprise or New Project -- Financing Creativity -- Organizational Culture -- Impact of National Culture -- What the Behavioral Sciences Have to Offer -- Management Training Opportunities -- Recommended Reading.

Addressing the issues unique to managers of creative technical staff, this guide reflects not only Ronald Kay’s long experience observing and teaching successful management techniques, but also treats the expanding challenges due to increasingly globally-based projects and staff. As before, Kay’s guide helps readers to prepare themselves, graduate students and others to understand and improve their managerial skills and covers such practical, yet sometimes overlooked, steps such as: individual and team behavior of creative  technical staff; managing their own and others’ R&D projects; hiring, evaluating and compensating technical staff; R&D proposals and administrative functions; and presentations, meetings and organizational culture. New to this edition are a chapter on the global impact of high-tech enterprises and sections on the roles of foundations and government funding and task-force participation. Also tackled are the basics of starting, financing and staffing venture-capital-funded enterprises. What’s more, this book also serves to increase the awareness and knowledge base of anyone who needs to meet the challenge of managing people with the creative energies that drive technologically-based economic growth.

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