Managing Science - Claude Gelès, Gilles Lindecker, Mel Month, Christian Roche

Managing Science

Management for R and D Laboratories
Buch | Hardcover
378 Seiten
1999
Wiley-VCH Publishers Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-471-18508-6 (ISBN)
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A unique "how-to" manual for the management of scientific laboratories This book presents a complete set of tools for the management of research and development laboratories and projects.
A unique "how-to" manual for the management of scientific laboratories

This book presents a complete set of tools for the management of research and development laboratories and projects. With an emphasis on knowledge rather than profit as a measure of output and performance, the authors apply standard management principles and techniques to the needs of high-flux, open-ended, separately funded science and technology enterprises. They also propose the novel idea that failure, and incipient failure, is an important measure of an organization's potential.

From the management of complex, round-the-clock, high-tech operations to strategies for long-term planning, Managing Science: Management for R&D Laboratories discusses how to build projects with the proper research and development, obtain and account for funding, and deal with rapidly changing technologies, facilities, and trends. The entire second part of the book is devoted to personnel issues and the impact of workplace behavior on the various functions of a knowledge-based organization.

Drawing on four decades of involvement with the management of scientific laboratories, the authors thoroughly illustrate their philosophy with real-world examples from the physics field and provide tables and charts. Managers of scientific laboratories as well as scientists and engineers expecting to move into management will find Managing Science: Management for R&D Laboratories an invaluable practical guide.

CLAUDE GELÈS (retired) was a technical manager at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics). GILLES LINDECKER is Head of Strategic Planning at CERN. MEL MONTH, PhD, is a scientist and educator at Brookhaven National Laboratory. CHRISTIAN ROCHE, PhD, was formerly Associate Director for Forecasting and Planning at CERN.

About the Authors vii

Preface  xi

Introduction xvii

Part 1  The Management Structures 1

1 Raisons d'Ȇtre 3

2 Institutions and Decision-Making Systems 27

3 Organization and Communication 45

4 Policy Implementation 63

5 Project Methodology and Management 91

6 Infrastructure 113

7 Human Resources Management 135

8 Financial Statements157

9 Cost Assessment and Management173

10 Logistics 191

11 General Services 199

12 Supply Chain 225

Part II The Human Drama 249

13 The Psychosocial Life 251

Case Study: The Failure Mode 275

14 Performance 279

15 Knowledge 297

16 Money 311

17 Judgment 319

Case Study: Planning and Serendipity 330

18 Epilogue: A Summary of the Nature of the Origins of Stagnation and Failure 339

Selected References 343

Index 349

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.1999
Reihe/Serie Wiley Series in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 246 mm
Gewicht 851 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-471-18508-6 / 0471185086
ISBN-13 978-0-471-18508-6 / 9780471185086
Zustand Neuware
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