A multinational study of work climate, job satisfaction, and the productivity of R&D teams

Author

Keller, Robert T. ; Julian, Scott D. ; Kedia, Ben L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage., Houston Univ., TX, USA

Volume

43

Issue

1

fYear

1996

fDate

2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

55

Abstract

A study was conducted covering 658 industrial and 1033 academic R&D teams in 11 countries, not including the United States. The climate variable of work importance explained unique variance in publication of original articles as well as external ratings of technical quality for both samples. The climate variable of participation/cooperation accounted for unique variance in articles published in both samples, and in technical quality ratings for the industrial sample. Satisfaction with pay/advancement explained unique variance in patents for the industrial sample and in articles for the academic sample. Satisfaction with supervision accounted for unique variance in patents and technical quality ratings for the academic sample. The inclusion of country as a control variable had some effects on the results, but still left work climate and job satisfaction as relatively robust predictors of R&D team productivity. Implications for R&D managers are discussed in the paper

Keywords

human factors; human resource management; personnel; professional aspects; research and development management; R&D teams; advancement; cooperation; job satisfaction; management implications; multinational study; participation; patents; pay; productivity; supervision; technical quality; work climate; Collaborative work; Laboratories; Marketing management; Productivity; Research and development; Research and development management; Robust control; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9391

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/17.491268

Filename

491268