Excerpt from Effort Allocation by Research and Development ManagersThe first level supervisor occupies a position of particular interest to students of organizational life because of this position's boundary situation. The juncture between the responsibilities and activities of an engineer and those of an engineering supervisor is perhaps even greater than that between a factory worker and the production foreman. The latter has been called the man in the middle First level engineering supervisors have'been described as having to face in two directions, they must understand and speak two languages. As participants in the broader decision making processes of the Corporation-they 'internalize' the norms of the business enterprise. But as scientists and managers of scientists, they need to show an understanding of, and respect for, professional goals. They have pressing upon them the expectations of two different roles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.