Engineers and Management
Subtitle: International Comparisons
By: editors, Smith, Chris
Contributors: Smith, Chris, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Management
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781351261128
Subjects: Engineering; Management
Notes: "Originally published in 1992. In an increasingly competitive climate, well-trained, experienced management is vital for establishing the long term future of industry. In response to this need, the number of management training courses have been growing in recent years. However, there is a group of highly skilled professionals who are not always recognized for their management potential. Engineers, often viewed as nothing more than technicians, are a valuable but neglected human resource. Their expertise has helped to generate the recent organizational restructuring throughout the manufacturing industry. This study compares the situation of engineers in Britain with those in other countries. It analyzes the industrial cultures of countries that have developed along very different traditions such as Japan, Germany and Hungary as well as countries like Canada and the US where British traditions have prevailed but where the outcomes are different. Bringing together leading writers on management who have specialist knowledge of the engineering profession, it covers such issues as education, employment and labour relations to show how far engineers are undervalued in British culture. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, MBA students, academics and researchers in management, engineering, new technology, industrial sociology and organizational behaviour."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Engineers and management in comparative perspectives; title: chapter 2 Wheels within wheels: predicting and accounting for fashionable alternatives to engineering; title: chapter 3 The engineering dimension and the management education movement; title: chapter 4 Japanese engineers and management cultures; title: chapter 5 Engineering and management in West Germany: a study in consistency?; title: chapter 6 The work of engineers in Hungary and their place within management cultures and hierarchies; title: chapter 7 Symbolizing professional pride: the case of Canadian engineers; title: chapter 8 Engineers and trade unions: the American and British cases compared; title: chapter 9 Irish engineers: education for emigration?; title: chapter 10 British engineers in context.