• DocumentCode
    945776
  • Title

    Merit Rating and Productivity in an Industrial Research Laboratory: A Case Study

  • Author

    Grasberg, Alexander G.

  • Author_Institution
    RCA Labs., Princeton, N. J.
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1959
  • fDate
    3/1/1959 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    31
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    A merit rating plan based only on one criterion, over-all performance, was tested in one section of approximately sixty engineer-scientists in a large industrial research laboratory. The procedure used is discussed along with some general results. In addition, a measure of individual productivity was developed based on the average number of technical reports, publications, and patent disclosures written per year. A fairly good correlation was found between the merit ratings and the measure of productivity.
  • Keywords
    Catalogs; Employee welfare; Engineering management; Humans; Laboratories; Personnel; Productivity; Remuneration; Testing; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering Management, IRE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-2252
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRET-EM.1959.5007492
  • Filename
    5007492