William F. Glueck

Sources of Research Ideas Among Productive Scholars. Implications for Administrators.

This paper reports on the sources that 160 productive hard science researchers use to acquire the ideas that guide their research. More productive researchers relied on their own ideas and past work as the primary source of research ideas as other social scientists had predicted. While the literature was another valued source, of less value were ideas contributed by colleagues elsewhere, and least important were ideas supplied by local colleagues. Administrators wishing to stimulate research productivity should try to lure the most creative researchers but should also put emphasis on libraries and information retrieval services, andfunds to attend professional meetings.

Managers, mobility, and morale

Management has long accepted relocation as a part of career development planning and for meeting manpower needs at specific company sites. But how do the transferred executives feel?

Organization Change in Business and Government

This paper discusses organization change in government and business in America. First the causes and dimensions of organization change are presented. The literature on organization change is review...

Worker management in Yugoslavia: An impressive incentive and participation system

Abstract A number of economic and noneconomic incentive programs have been tried in both America and Europe in an effort to improve worker productivity. Both approaches are integral parts of the system now used in Yugoslavia. Workers councils make long-run policy decisions delegating intermediate-term decisions to an elected board of management and day-to-day decisions to a hired manager. The over-all results are impressive. This country, a nation with a diverse and undereducated population with no tradition of industrialization, has revitalized its stagnant and war-ravaged economy. Its steady economic growth is topped only by Japans. The basic motivations tapped by the system merit attention and study.

George J. Gore's “The Management Internship”

The article presents a response to an earlier article titled “The Management Internship,” by George J. Gore, which appeared in a previous issue of “Academy of Management Journal.” The author of thi...