TOPICS COVERED IN THIS SECTION INCLUDE:
Modified: January 3, 2002
Allen, Thomas, Katz, Ralph, Grady, J.J. and
Slavin, Neil, "Project Team Aging and Performance: The Roles of Project
and Functional Managers", R&D Management, Vol. 18, No. 4, October,
1988, pp. 295-308
Anderson, A.G., "Maintaining Vitality
in R&D Organizations", Research Management, Vol. 14, No. 4, July,
1971, pp. 47-57
Aryee, Samuel, "Combating Obsolescence:
Predictors of Technical Updating Among Engineers", Journal of Engineering
and Technology Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, August, 1991, pp. 103-119
Badawy, M.K., "Management Strategies
for Combating Job Stress: Implications for Engineering Managers", Proceedings
of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Management,
Washington, DC, October, 16-18, 1983, pp. 57-60
Bennett, Rawson, "Obsolescence of Engineers
and Scientists", in Improving Effectiveness in Research and Development,
R.E. Cole, ed., Washington, DC: Thompson Book Co., 1967
Blau, BenAmi, "How IBM Technical Professionals
Perceive their Work Environment", Research-Technology Management, Vol.
32, No. 1, January-February, 1989, pp. 27-30
Bloch, Erich, "Countering Obsolescence
in the Workplace", Research Management, Vol. 27, No. 6, November-December,
1984, p. 6
Bosworth, D.L., "The Rate of Obsolescence
of Technical Knowledge", The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol.
26, No. 3, March, 1978, pp. 273-279
Branscomb, L.M., "Staff Obsolescence
- Its Cost and Prevention", Research Management, Vol. 16, No. 2, March,
1973, pp. 16-19
Buchan, R.M., "A Bank Account Program
for Professional Development", Research Management, Vol. 16, No. 2,
March, 1973, pp. 24- 28
Buell, C.K. and Pollock, L.W., "Maintaining
Engineering Professionalism", Research Management, Vol. 8, No. 4, July,
1965, pp. 207-217
Burke, R.J., "Effects of Aging on Engineer's
Satisfactions and Mental Health: Skill Obsolescence", Academy of Management
Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, December, 1969, pp. 479-486
Clarke, Thomas E., "Continuing Education
for Scientists", Canadi an Research, Vol. 18, February, 1985, pp. 18,
20, 32
Cohen, J.E., "Size, Age and Productivity
of Scientific and Technical Research Groups", Scientometrics, Vol.
20, No. 3, March- April, 1991, pp. 395-416
Covner, B.J., "Engineers in Midstream:
A Study of Engineers Seeking Professional Career Guidance", IEEE Transactions
on Engineering Management, Vol. EM-10, No. 1, March, 1963, pp. 15-18
Crocker, B.B., Cecil, L.K. and Witt Jr., P.A.,
"Conversion of Engineers - Will It Work?", Chemical Engineering
Progress, Vol. 67, No. 9, September, 1971, pp. 21-32
Dalton, G.W. and Thompson, P.H., "Accelerating
Obsolescence of Older Engineers", Harvard Business Review, Vol. 49,
No. 5, September-October, 1971, pp. 57-67
Dalton, G.W., Thompson, P.H. and Price, R.L.,
"The Four Stages of Professional Careers", ChemTech, Vol. 9,
No. 3, March, 1979, pp. 138-147
Decker, W.D. and Van Atta, C.M., "Controlling
Staff Age, and Flexible Retirement Plans", Research Management, Vol.
16, No. 1, January, 1973, pp. 16-21
Dennis, W., "The Age Decrement in Outstanding
Scientific Contributions: Fact or Artifact?", American Psychologist,
Vol. 13, No. 8, August, 1958, pp. 457-460
Dubin, S.S., "Continuing Education
- Whose Responsibility?", ChemTech, Vol. 3, No. 3, March, 1973, pp.
160-166
Dubin, S.S., Shelton, Howard and McConnell,
J., eds., "Maintaining Professional and Technical Competence of the
Older Engineers - Engineering and Psychological Aspects", Washington,
DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1974
Dubin, S.S., Shelton, H. and McConnell, J.,
"Maintaining Professional Competence of the Older Engineer",
Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, July, 1973
EIRMA, "Managing Mature Scientists",
Workshop Report, Paris: European Industrial Research Management Association,
1990
Evan, W.M., "The Problem of Obsolescence
of Knowledge", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. EM-10,
No. 1, March, 1963, pp. 29-31
Falk, H., "Why and Ways for Keeping
Up", IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 11, No. 5, May, 1974, pp. 36-45
Farr, J.L., Dubin, S.S., Enscore, E.E., Kozlowski,
S.W.J. and Cleveland, J.N., "Relationships Among Individual Motivation,
Work Environment, and Updating in Engineers", Psychological Documents,
Vol. 13, 16. (Ms. No. 2563), 1983
Farr, J.L., Enscore, E.E., Dubin, S.S., Cleveland,
J.N. and Kozlowski, S.W.J., "Behavior Anchored Scales: A Method for
Identifying Continuing Education Needs of Engineers", Psychological
Documents, Vol. 13, 16., (Ms. No. 2562), 1983
Ferdinand, T.N., "On the Obsolescence
of Scientists and Engineers", American Scientist, Vol. 54, No. 1, March,
1966, pp. 46- 56
Gerpott, T.J. and Domsch, Michel, "R&D
Professionals' Reactions to the Career Plateau: Mediating Effects of Supervisory
Behaviours and Job Characteristics", R&D Management, Vol. 17, No.
2, April, 1987, pp. 103-118
Gerpott, Torsten and Domsch, Michel, "Age
Structure Shifts in Research & Development (R&D)", R&D
Management, Vol. 14, No. 3, July, 1984, pp. 129-146
Ginsburg, I.S., "Continuing Education
at Whiting", Hydrocarbon Processing, Vol. 49, No. 1, January, 1970,
pp. 177-179
Graves, J.P., "Age and Performance
of Scientists and Engineers: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Comparisons",
Ph.D. Dissertation, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1975
Hall, D.T. and Mansfield, R., "Relationships
of Age and Seniority with Career Variables of Engineers and Scientists",
Journal of Applied Psychology, Vol. 60, No. 2, 1975, pp. 201-210
Hannan, M.T., Burton, M.D. and Baron, J.N.,
"Inertia and Change in the Early Years: Employment Relations in Young,
High-technology Firms", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 5, 1996,
pp. 503-536
Hofstader, R.A., "How Exxon Runs Its
Technical Education Program", Research Management, Vol. 27, No. 6,
November-December, 1984, pp. 27-29
Holloway, F.A.L., Petrella, A. and Swabb Jr.,
L.E., "How to Foster the Continuing Development of Professional People",
Research Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, July, 1970, pp. 281-289
Industrial Research Institute, "Continued
Development of Technical Personnel - Prevention of Obsolescence", Research
Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, May, 1965, pp. 159-167
Industrial Research Institute, "Improving
the Technical Competence of Research Workers", Industrial Research
Institute Study Group No. 5, Research Management, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter, 1961,
pp. 255-269
Katz, Ralph, "As Research Teams Grow
Older", Research Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, January-February, 1984,
pp. 23-28
Katz, Ralph, "The Effects of Group
Longevity on Project Communication and Performance", Administrative
Science Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 1, March, 1982, pp. 81-104
Kaufman, H.G., "Obsolescence of Technical
Professionals: A Measure and a Model", Applied Psychology International
Review, Vol. 38, 1989, pp. 73-85
Kaufman, H.G., "Continuing Education
for Up-Dating Technical People", Research Management, Vol. 18, No.
4, July, 1975, pp. 20- 23
Kaufman, H.G., ed., "Career Management:
A Guide to Combating Obsolescence", New York: Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers Press, 1975
Kaufman, H.G., "Obsolescence and Professional
Career Devel opment", New York: American Management Association, 1974
Kaufman, H.G., "Relationship to Early
Work Challenge to Job Performance, Professional Contributions and Competency
of Engineers", Journal of Applied Psychology, June, 1974, pp. 377-389
Kaufman, H.G., "A Critical Incident
Study of Personal Characteristics Associated with Technical Obsolescence Among
Engineers", Studies in Personnel Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring,
1973, pp. 63-67
Kimblin, C.W. and Souder, W.E., "Maintaining
Staff Productivity as Half-Life Decreases", Research Management, Vol.
18, No. 6, November, 1975, pp. 29-35
Kozlowski, S.W.J., "Engineer Technical
Performance and Updating: A Model of Empirical Evaluation", Presented
at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Anaheim,
CA: August, 1983
Kozlowski, S.W.J. and Hults, B.M., "An
Exploration of Climates for Technical Updating and Performance", Personnel
Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 3, Autumn, 1987, pp. 539-563
Landis, Fred, "Continuing Engineering
Education: Who Really Needs It", ASEE Continuing Engineering Studies
Series No. 4, Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education, 1970,
pp. 35-54
Landy, F.J., "Developing Scales for
Measuring Obsolescence", Research Management, Vol. 18, No. 4, July,
1975, pp. 11-14
Lavorie, F.J., "Engineering Retraining:
Hope or Hokum?", Machine Design, November 25, 1971, pp. 66-72
Lehman, H.C., "The Most Creative Years
of Engineers and Other Technologists", Journal of Genetic Psychology,
Vol. 108, No. 2, June, 1966, pp. 263-277
Lehman, H.C., "The Age Decrement in
Outstanding Scientific Creativity", American Psychologist, Vol. 15,
No. 2, February, 1960, pp. 128-134
Lehman, H.C., "The Chemist's Most Creative
Years", Science, Vol. 127, No. 3308, May 23, 1958, pp. 1213-1222
Lehman, H.C., "Age and Achievement",
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953
Levin, S.G. and Stephan, P.E., "Research
Productivity Over the Life Cycle: Evidence for Academic Scientists",
The American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, March, 1991, pp. 114-132
Luberoff, B.J., "Current Practice in
Continuing Education", ChemTech, Vol. 12, No. 1, January, 1982, pp.
12-18
Mali, Paul, "Measurement of Obsolescence
in Engineering Practitioners", in Career Management: A Guide to Combating
Obsolescence, H.G. Kaufman, ed., New York: IEEE Press, 1975, pp. 25-35
Margulies, Newton and Raia, A.P., "Scientists,
Engineers and Technological Obsolescence", California Management Review,
Vol. 10, No. 2, Winter, 1967, pp. 43-48
Martin Jr., T.L., "GENESYS: Florida's
Weapon Against Technological Obsolescence", Research Management, Vol.
8, No. 6, November, 1965, pp. 359-368
Martinec, E.L., "The Expanding Field
of Continuing Education", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Joint Engineering
Management Conference, Washington, DC: 1975, pp. 35-45
McCormick, Kevin, "Career Paths, Technological
Obsolescence and Skill Formation: R&D Staff in Britain and Japan",
R&D Management, Vol. 25, No. 2, April, 1995, pp. 197-211
Miller, D.B., "How to Improve the Performance
and Productivity of the Knowledge Worker", Organizational Dynamics,
Vol. 5, No. 3, Winter, 1977, pp. 62-80
Miller, D.B., "Managing for Long-Term
Technical Vitality", Research Management, Vol. 18, No. 4, July, 1975,
pp. 15-19
Miller, D.B., "Professional Growth,
A Shared Responsibility", Research Management, Vol. 7, No. 6, November,
1964, pp. 407-417
Oberg, W., "Age and Achievement and
the Technical Man", Personnel Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer, 1960,
pp. 245-259
Pelz, D.C. and Andrews, Frank, "Age",
in Scientists in Organizations, New York: Wiley, 1976, (Ch. 10), pp. 174-199;
"Age and Climate", (Ch. 11), pp. 200-213
Pelz, D.C., "The Creative Years and
the Research Environment", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,
Vol. EM-11, No. 1, March, 1964, pp. 23-29
Posner, B.Z., Hall, J.L. and Harder, J.W.,
"People Are Our Most Important Resource, But: Encouraging Employee Development",
Business Horizons, Vol. 29, No. 5, September/October, 1986, pp. 52-54
Price, R.L., Thompson, P.H. and Dalton, G.W.,
"A Longitudinal Study of Technological Obsolescence", Research
Management, Vol. 18, No. 6, November, 1975, pp. 22-28
Renck, Richard, Kahn, K.L. and Gardner, B.B.,
"Continuing Education - Current Policy and Practice in Industrial Research",
Research Management, Vol. 13, No. 5, September, 1970, pp. 351-366
Rinehart, W.T., "Continuing Education
in Industry", Re search/Development, Vol. 21, No. 5, May, 1970, pp.
32-36
Roberts, E.B., "The Problem of Aging
Organizations - A Study of R&D Units", Business Horizons, Vol.
10, No. 4, Winter, 1967, pp. 51-58
Roe, A., "Psychology of Scientists",
in The Management of Scientists, Karl Hill, ed., Boston, MA: Beacon, 1964
Rosenbaum, Jan, "Technological Substitution
and the Death of an Industry", Technology In Society, Vol. 16, No.
1, 1994, pp. 85-95
Rothman, R.A. and Perrucci, Robert, "Organizational
Careers and Professional Expertise", Administrative Science Quarterly,
Vol. 15, No. 3, September, 1970, pp. 282-293
Saleh, S.D. and Desai, K., "Occupational
Stressors for Engineers", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management,
Vol. EM- 33, No. 1, February, 1986, pp. 6-11
Scharge, Hermann, "Age vs. Efficiency",
ChemTech, Vol. 7, No. 3, March, 1977, pp. 153-154
Seifert, W.W., "The Prevention and
Cure of Obsolescence in Scientific and Technical Personnel", Research
Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, March, 1964, pp. 143-154
Shapero, Albert, "Making the Technical
Unemployed Productive Again", Innovation, No. 31, May, 1972, pp. 38-48
Shearer, R.L. and Steger, J.A., "Manpower
Obsolescence: A New Definition and Empirical Investigation of Personal Variables",
Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, June, 1975, pp. 263-275
Smith, C.G., "Age of R and D Groups:
A Reconsideration", Human Relations, Vol. 23, No. 2, April, 1970, pp.
81-96
Sørensen, Jesper B. and Stuart, Toby
E., "Aging, Obsolescence, and Organizational Innovation", Administrative
Science Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, March, 2000, pp. 81-112
Steiner, D.D. and Farr, J.L., "Career
Goals, Organizational Reward Systems and Technical Updating in Engineers",
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Stewart, N. and Sparks, W., "Patent
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Personnel and Guidance Journal, Vol. 45, 1966, pp. 28-36
Thompson, P.H. and Dalton, G.W., "Are
R&D Organizations Obsolete?", Harvard Business Review, Vol. 54,
No. 6, November- December, 1976, pp. 105-116
Thumann, Albert, "An Experiment in
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Torpey, W.G., "Company Investment in
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Vol. 45, No. 4, Fall, 1964, pp. 408-413
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pp. 7-8
Zelikoff, S.B., "On the Obsolescence
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Journal, Vol. 26, No. 5, May, 1969, pp. 3-14
Zelikoff, S.B., "The Obsolescing Engineer",
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