An effective R&D performance measurement system: survey of Korean R&D researchers

被引:122
作者
Kim, B [1 ]
Oh, H [1 ]
机构
[1] Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol, Grad Sch Management, Seoul 130012, South Korea
来源
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | 2002年 / 30卷 / 01期
关键词
management of R&D; R&D; R&D performance measurement system;
D O I
10.1016/S0305-0483(01)00049-4
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 [管理学]; 1201 [管理科学与工程]; 1202 [工商管理学]; 120202 [企业管理];
摘要
Without effective performance evaluation, R&D organizations will find it hard to motivate their R&D scientists and engineers: 'How should R&D managers design the performance measurement system most suitable to their own organization?' is a critical question. Based on a large-scale survey covering over 1200 R&D scientists and engineers in Korean R&D organizations, we put Forth the following lessons. Although most of the R&D personnel prefer their compensation based on their performance, they indicate that lack of fair performance evaluation system could be the biggest obstacle towards implementing such a compensation scheme. They also suggest that a fair performance evaluation should utilize more behavioral and qualitative measures such as leadership and mentoring for younger researchers, and bottom-up (e.g., R&D researchers' evaluation of their own bosses, say, R&D managers) as well as horizontal (e.g., peers and/or colleagues) evaluation schemes. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:19 / 31
页数:13
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