Industrial Scientists and Engineers: Motivational Style Differences

1 October 1971

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in California Management Review

Vol. 14 (1) , 11-16
https://doi.org/10.2307/41164360

Abstract

Scientists and engineers are lumped together as "professionals" in much industrial and development research. The author explores the evidence that the two are the same as well as that the two are basically different, and deals with the perceived need systems and motivational style of scientists and engineers in industry.

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This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:

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