Maintaining the Research and Development Personnel in a Small Laboratory

What you do with your engineering personnel after you get it is extremely important. Failure to understand management's responsibility in handling engineering personnel will result in a poor investment in the cost of selecting and subsequent training of such people. A realistic understanding of how not only to attract but hold your engineering personnel will pay dividends; you will hold the men you have so carefully chosen because certain basic needs have been met. It is significant to note that this is not only a problem which faces the large industrial laboratories, but is also true of the small laboratories which at the present time are employing professional engineering people in large numbers.