Challenges to management

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Today's management experts still begin with some basic assumptions concerning industrial engineers, put down by Frederick Taylor and other pioneers. One assumption is that managers and workers make up fundamentally two classes of human beings because they have different interests. Where hourly workers are most interested in take-home pay, managers, engineers and other professionals are more interested in their job's psychic rewards and social relationships. Furthermore, not all managers and engineers look forward to moving from R&D through the design and production cycle and on to customer engineering or sales, and not all professionals are excited about the interdepartmental communication that the new concept of concurrent engineering demands. While the accelerating pace of industrial change requires greater worker flexibility and learning, uncertainty regarding corporate direction and company survival make providing credible management and obtaining worker loyalty all the more difficult.

Methods, Management science, Management, Human resource management, Work environment, Leadership, Trends, Employee Relations, Personnel management

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Nurturing the open mind

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Common characteristics of innovative engineers include an open mind, persistence in the face of discouragement, enjoyment of their work and usually high emotional stability. They often perceive themselves to be independent thinkers or devil's advocates within an organization and bypass or dismiss organizational impediments, internal politics and colleague's criticisms. Such engineers, though, also understand the larger issues in product development, including economics, acceptance and need. Innovators generally seem to be most interested in working at the systems definition stage, preferring to investigate the overall problem rather than the details. Models of the innovative process developed by W. Bernard Carlson and Michael E. Gorman of the University of Virginia and Jacob Rabinow are described. Other aspects of and perspectives on the innovation process are briefly discussed.

Cover Story, Scientists, Psychology, Creativity, Human Factors, Analysis

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Historians and journalists

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Similarities between historians and journalists compared. Both groups show idiosyncrasies, they are alike in many ways. Both rely on solid research, digging out facts and organizing input into a logical format. Historians deal with past events while the journalists job is to deal with recent history, reporting it accurately and placing it as much as possible in context. Modern historians tend to add more value to their work than many did in former times.Both history and journalism are strongly influenced by perceptions.

History, Writing, Historical Records

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