Managing Creativity in Science and Hi-Tech

Online-Ressource (XIX, 193 p, digital)

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Managing Creativity in Science and Hi-Tech; Preface; Acknowledgments; Preface to the First Edition; Acknowledgments to the First Edition; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Outline; 2.1 A Word About Getting the Most Out of This Book; 3 Is the Management of Creative People Desirable?; 3.1 Does Management Understand Creative People?; 3.2 Creative People Do Not Need Management!; 3.3 Characteristics of a Creative Hi-Tech Professional; 3.3.1 Recognition as a Prime Motivator; 3.3.2 Achievement for Its Own Sake; 3.3.3 Achievement Versus Relationships; 3.4 Managing Creative People: Our Hypothesis

3.5 Creative Team Effort3.6 Individual Creative Effort; 3.7 Summary; 4 Managing Your Own Work; 4.1 Objectives, Activities, and Results; 4.1.1 The Basis for Decision Making; 4.1.2 Our Intuitive Management Style; 4.2 Efficiency and Effectiveness; 4.3 Dealing with the ``Incompetent'' Project Leader; 4.4 Work Habits of the Successful; 4.5 Publications; 4.6 Managing the Use of Time; 4.7 Supporting Decisions; 4.8 Summary; 5 Desired Qualifications of Managers; 5.1 Picking the ``Best'' Available; 5.2 Qualifications of Project Manager; 5.3 Qualifications of Department Manager

5.4 Qualifications of the Top-Level Manager5.5 Leadership: To Lead or to Mislead; 5.6 Summary; 6 Managing a Project; 6.1 The Expectations of the Project Members; 6.2 Management Initiative; 6.3 The Role of Estimates and Schedules; 6.4 Communication Within the Project; 6.5 Communication with Those Outside the Project; 6.6 Formal Project-Tracking Schemes; 6.7 Report Writing; 6.8 Patents; 6.9 Summary; 7 Some Aspects of Managing a Departmentor Small Enterprise; 7.1 Developing a Strategy; 7.2 Elements of a Strategy; 7.2.1 Environment; 7.2.2 Mission; 7.2.3 Potential Impact

7.2.4 Usefulness of Strategy7.3 Developing an Operating Plan; 7.4 The Financial Plan; 7.5 Summary; 8 Managing Creative People in the Hi-Tech Environment; 8.1 Recruiting; 8.1.1 Recruiting: The Applicant's Position; 8.1.2 What Management Potential?; 8.1.3 The On-Site Interview; 8.1.4 The Recruiter's Position; 8.2 Performance Evaluation; 8.2.1 Why Performance Evaluation?; 8.2.2 The Evaluation Process; 8.2.3 Observations About the Evaluation Process; 8.2.4 Consequences of Evaluation: Wantedand Unwanted; 8.2.5 Opinion Surveys; 8.3 Compensation; 8.3.1 The Hybrid ``Experience - Merit'' Approach

8.3.2 The ``Merit Only'' Approach8.3.3 Ranking Criteria; 8.3.4 Ranking: Public or Private?; 8.3.5 Nonmonetary Compensation; 8.4 Management Style; 8.4.1 Is There ``A Way'' of Managing People?; 8.4.2 Guidelines Versus Rules; 8.4.3 Management Style: Perceived Positively; 8.4.4 Management Style: Perceived Negatively; 8.4.5 Summary: Managing People; 9 Evaluation of Research and Development; 9.1 Evaluation at the Project Level; 9.2 Evaluation at the Department Level; 9.3 Evaluation at the Top Level; 9.4 The Importance of Under-the-Table Projects; 9.5 General Observations About Project Evaluation

9.6 The Evaluation Process

10.1007/978-3-642-24635-7 [DOI]

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