The manager's role and the high mobility of technical specialists in the Santa Clara Valley

One hundred locally employed engineers, programmers, and scientists enrolled in engineering management courses at Santa Clara, responded to a survey asking why technical specialists are frequently changing jobs. While escalating salaries trigger the change, the reasons advanced for staying with an organization, or the improved conditions sought by changing jobs, is of interest to those managers who wish to retain their key people, and of equal interest to those managers who seek to spirit people to their own organizations.