Communication In Relation to Research Personnel: His interest in science and a good mind make the research worker a willing student for training in communication

RESEARCH is now carried on in fine buildings, often with extensive supervisory systems and by highly selected personnel. However, the prime considerations are the attitudes and habits of the personnel; the rest is secondary. While there are many factors bearing on these attitudes and habits, one of the most important is the activity called "communications." Here I am using the term in its broadest sense to include everything all the way from presentation of papers at an AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY meeting to the internal communications one has with himself, such as hypothesizing and planning. Since the subject of communication is important and yet little discussed, let us consider successively the relation of communication with the normal personnel procedures of selection, training, supervision, and work of scientific research employees. Selection In s-leering research workers, the employer is in a dilemma. He usually wants more than nature creates. He wants someone who has an interest in science ...