Unasylva - No. Accessible information on forestry management Research management in forestry . FAO Forestry Paper No. 102. During the 1980s, the idea began to spread that the management of forestry research might not be so different from the management of other kinds of businesses.
Business management involves the management of people, money, problems and opportunities.
Business operations include planning, monitoring, evaluation, communication and marketing. As management specialists began to look at forestry research, it became obvious that research managers were badly in need of skills of the type that managers of other enterprises often acquire from management courses, seminars, books and videos. Old-style, authoritarian research managers are particularly in need of such training if they are to have any hope of upgrading the efficiency of their organizations in an increasingly competitive world, or of keeping their best scientists from packing up and leaving. This publication is a condensed version of the 1990 FAO Forestry Paper No. 96, and is produced in a more convenient, small format. The condensation was done in order to provide busy managers with a more accessible text to browse during their free time.