SGER: Leadership in the Laboratory: Defining Best Practices for Mentoring Academic Scientists

SGER：实验室领导力：定义指导学术科学家的最佳实践

• 批准号: 0751507
• 负责人: Dorothy Shippen
• 金额: $ 15.24万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0751507&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Leadership; Laboratory; Defining; Best

Effective management of scientists in academic research settings is a key component of highly successful research programs. Nevertheless, many new Principal Investigators (PIs) lack the appropriate leadership skills and as a consequence face an uphill battle in building a productive research enterprise and sustaining grant funding. When PIs falter in lab management, their career advancement is jeopardized along with the considerable investments made by academic institutions and funding agencies in these research programs. The goal of this project, which will be conducted during a faculty sabbatical leave at Texas A&M University and at Harvard University, is to determine whether postdoctoral fellows and young PIs can benefit from understanding fundamental principals of business management and thus be assisted in their transition to independent research careers. Aspects of management to be examined are: 1) leadership styles that promote creativity, resiliency, productivity and collegiality; 2) methods for recognizing and recruiting the right people; 3) optimal methods for training and promoting knowledge transfer; and 4) understanding working styles of people from diverse backgrounds.

在学术研究环境中科学家的有效管理是非常成功的研究计划的关键组成部分。尽管如此，许多新的主要研究人员（PIS）缺乏适当的领导才能，因此面临着建立生产性研究企业和维持赠款资金的艰苦斗争。当PIS在实验室管理方面步履蹒跚时，他们的职业发展受到了危害，并在学术机构和资助机构在这些研究计划中进行的大量投资。该项目的目标是在德克萨斯A＆M大学和哈佛大学的休假期间进行，以确定博士后研究员和年轻的PI是否可以从了解商业管理的基本原理中受益，从而帮助他们过渡到独立研究职业。要审查的管理方面是：1）领导风格促进创造力，弹性，生产力和合同性； 2）认识和招募合适的人的方法； 3）用于培训和促进知识转移的最佳方法； 4）了解来自不同背景的人们的工作风格。