Management as a Career

Second, being a manager means a major shift in the nature of one s work. Most professionals take satisfaction in seeing a number of individual projects through to completion, whereas a manager s job is continuous for the most part, with few defined starts and finishes other than those set by the arbitrary dates of a fiscal year. 

A manager also needs to maintain a healthy family life, as well as make time for community involvement. For most people, their family is the most important focus of their lives. It s virtually a cliche that someone on their deathbed is unlikely to bemoan that they had not spent enough time in their office As in almost everything in life, moderation and balance are the keys to success. 

Community involvement has at least two dimensions. The first is personal and what most people think of religious, charitable, and other service-oriented activities. This is something in which everyone should participate as a responsible member of his or her community. It is part of the necessary balance in life just mentioned. 

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I recommend that, as early as practicable, safety practitioners take a course in financial management as a career enhancement measure. To introduce this subject, I borrow from the chapter titled A Short Course on Financial Management in the book Innovations in Safety Management Addressing Career Knowledge Needs. 

Supply chain management is a career for people that can handle the gray areas. It requires a different kind of person because a black and white orientation and rules-based logic will not be as... 

Some of you may be called upon to become supervisors and managers over one or more employees. This requires another whole set of skills that you will have to learn on the job and through more education and training. However, when it comes to safety, you set the tone and the attitude for your team. People will look to you for safety guidance and will trust that you will not allow them to be put in dangerous situations. It is important that you earn their trust early. It is quite possible that you will have to teach them how to do their jobs safely. This is where you can pass on the RAMP message. Some chemists careers migrate into the area of health and safety. See Special Topic 1.3.2.1 Chemical Health and Safety as a Career or Collateral Duty. 

In file traditional sense of the word, today s engineer is more likely to find him or herself as part of a startup, replete with 13-hour workdays, a Blackberry, and stock options. But even when today s engineer works in more traditional settings, he or she is likely to find that both the job itself and effective career management require a more venturesome attitude and approach. Increased competition places enormous pressure on companies to continue to improve and... 

Prof. Buchel studied chemistry at the Chemical Institute of the University of Bonn from 1952 to 1958 at which date he received his Doctorate of Science, and he continued there as an assistant to Prof. F. Korte from 1958 to 1961. Incidentally, it is a pleasure to welcome Prof. Korte to this gathering today to celebrate the remarkable success of his former student. From Bonn, Prof. Buchel moved to the Research Institute of Shell International at Birlinghoven for 5 years as a department head before beginning his career with Bayer AG. In the short space of the 10 years that followed, he rose from being a member of the Central Research Laboratory at Leverkusen to the position of Director of Central Research for Bayer and the Speaker for Research on Bayer s Board of Management. 

We realize that many pharmacists have not had much management coursework in their formal education or professional training. We hope that this book serves as a valuable guide to pharmacists who may require some assistance dealing with matters they did not anticipate when embarking on their careers. For those pharmacists with formal management education and experience, we hope that this book serves as a valuable reference or as a source of new ideas that can be applied in daily practice. 

Rod Dresser is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. He served on destroyers and submarines while in the Navy. After retirement he changed a photographic hobby into a career. Rod was an assistant to Ansel Adams and after Adams death Rod took over the position as business manager for the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. 

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