THE CASE OF A YOUNG RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

This case narrative was presented to a select group of practising mana gers, management consultants and academics along with a note saying th at the case is a human resource management problem based on the experi ence shared by a group of personnel administrators and a group of engi neers and scientists in a in-house R & D unit of a large organisation. Like most human resource problems it has no 'unique' or 'correct' ans wer. Nevertheless, problems of this type are found with some variation s in almost all R & D organisations in India. To help their colleagues deal with such a situation the respondents were asked to write their comments and analysis, keeping in mind the long term and short term pe rspectives.