Principles of Lean Management in Research and Development Organizations: A View from Russia

2021 ◽  
pp. 479-486
Author(s):  
Robert M. Nizhegorodtsev ◽  
Nina P. Goridko
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Development Organizations

Relationship between Locus of Control, Perceived Group Cohesiveness, and Satisfaction with Coworkers

1978 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Dailey
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Group Cohesiveness ◽  
Joint Effects ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
Main Effects

To determine if locus of control and perceived cohesiveness of a group had singular and joint effects on experienced satisfaction with coworkers 281 scientists and engineers in 15 Research and Development organizations were tested. Main effects and the interaction of the predictors were significant. Persons scoring internally were less satisfied with coworkers than were those who scored externally. Cohesiveness was significantly related to the criterion and subjects designated as externally oriented demonstrated a stronger relationship between perceived cohesiveness and satisfaction with coworkers than their internally oriented counterparts.

Behavioral Intentions and Retention of Technical and Scientific Staff in Research and Development Organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Valéria Steil ◽  
Gertrudes Aparecida Dandolini ◽  
João Artur de Souza ◽  
Denise de Cuffa ◽  
Rejane Costa
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Supervisory Support ◽  
Intention To Stay ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Scientific Staff ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Private Research

Different reasons influence intentions of technical and scientific professionals to stay or leave their current jobs, impacting the ability of companies to retain these professionals. This paper identified the antecedents of intentions to leave, intentions to stay, and retention of such technical and scientific professionals in private research and development organizations from the Greater Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data was collected via online questionnaires between December, 2014 and March, 2015. Job satisfaction and supervisory support were negatively related to the intention to leave the organization, and positively related to the intention to stay in the organization. Training and development opportunities and organizational culture presented negative relation only to the intention to leave the organization. The article discusses these results and presents suggestions for future studies.

scholarly journals Sharing Values for Changing Practices, a Lever for Sustainable Transformation? The Case of Farmers and Processors in Interaction within Localized Cheese Sectors

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgane Millet ◽  
François Casabianca
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Raw Milk ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Geographical Indications ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Sharing Values ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
Cross Reference

International research and development organizations have acknowledged that localized agrifood systems, particularly geographical indications (GIs), are a lever for evolving towards sustainable agriculture. Such a premise is neither spontaneous nor systematic. Research and development organizations show their limit in proposing approaches to overcome this raised issue: The performance-based approach of sustainability, associated with a strict economical understanding of activities, is at stake. We propose the introduction of a values-based approach to the understanding of localized activities and their contribution to sustainability. We base our demonstration on the study of the relationships between stakeholders within GIs on a day-to-day basis: Corsica and Western Pyrenees (WP) are regions where traditional cheeses (respectively GI Brocciu and GI Ossau-Iraty) are produced with ewe milk. We build a typology of relationships between farmers providing the milk and dairies, based on the theory of worlds of worth (from industrial to artisanal). We cross-reference it with values given to milk and cheese. Despite the framing role of GIs, milk is mainly valued according to industrial criteria of quantity and sound farming practices have no weightage. However, artisanal and civic initiatives have emerged using raw milk and fostering more sustainable practices, notably based on organic farming. Though those initiatives are currently marginal, they might be promising seeds of change.

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