Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists

✍ Scribed by John V. Chelsom, Andrew C. Payne, Lawrence R. P. Reavill

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 560
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Significantly revised and updated, this second edition of Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists is vital reading for all students of any of these subjects hoping to make it in the real world.

В Increasingly, students of engineering, science and technology subjects are finding that their success depends as much on general management skills and understanding operational systems, as on their technical expertise. This book offers students that all important, firm foundation in management training.

  Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists offers a practical and accessible introduction to management and provides a comprehensive guide to the management tools used in managing people and other resources.  Part 1 includes a series of chapters on management applications and concepts, starting with basic issues such as ‘What is a business?’ and ‘What is management?' continuing through management of quality, materials and new product development and concluding with examples of successful companies who provide good models of management.  Part 2 starts with chapters on human resource management, and communication, and goes on to provide some tools and techniques, such as critical path networks, discounted cash flow, inventory control, concluding with a new chapter on the management of SMEs.

 The authors’ significant experience in both teaching and industry provides valuable lessons in business management, and allows them to give real life, insightful case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Management for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists Second Edition......Page 3
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction to the second edition......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
PART I BUSINESS BASICS......Page 19
1 Business basics......Page 21
2 The business environment......Page 32
3 Management styles: From Taylorism to McKinsey’s 7Ss......Page 50
4 Management of quality......Page 61
5 Materials management......Page 81
6 Managing design and new product development......Page 94
7 Organizations......Page 121
8 Managing to succeed......Page 140
PART II MANAGING ENGINEERING RESOURCES......Page 165
9 Human resource management – the individual......Page 167
10 Groups of people......Page 191
11 Communication......Page 222
12 Work study......Page 253
13 Costing and pricing......Page 268
14 Measuring financial performance......Page 286
15 Project investment decisions......Page 314
16 Maintenance management......Page 342
17 Project management......Page 353
18 Networks for projects......Page 382
19 Project management – managing construction procurement......Page 394
20 Inventory management......Page 406
21 Management of the supply system......Page 428
22 Marketing......Page 451
23 A case study in starting an SME......Page 484
Appendix 1 A guide to writing a business plan......Page 505
Appendix 2 Quality management tools......Page 514
Appendix 3 Case study: Developing a network......Page 530
Appendix 4 DCF tables......Page 540
Index......Page 553