MEM 2221 Lecture 10: Lecture 10_ Motivation and Leadership in Professionals

• School: UConn
• Department: Management and Engineering for Manufacturing
• Course: MEM 2221
• Professor: John Wilson

Document Summary

Having a high need for achievement and deriving their motivation primarily from the work itself. Most productive when they can achieve professional goals in the process of pursuing organizational goals. Desire autonomy (independence) over the conditions, pace and content of their work. Tending to identify first with their profession and second with their company. Look to their peers for recognition, ethical standards, and collegial support and stimulation. Seeking to maintain their expertise through study and stave off obsolescence, continuing education, reading literature, professional society activity, and work assignments. Engineers need to help their managers" business succeed. Engineers can influence decision makers in their organizations. Everyone should be interested in building character. Scientists value independence and learning more while engineers are concerned with professional preparation, success and family life. True scientists is assumed to have a doctorate, engineers generally begin with a bachelor"s and may earn a master"s later. Scientists value professional autonomy and publication of results, engineers are team workers.