Project organisational skills

This part of the book is restricted to a consideration of the skills that an effective R D team manager will need to deploy. These are specifically leadership skills, the management of creative groups and last but not least the ability to manage one s own career. The various additional aspects of team working, especially the organisation of project teams will be examined in greater detail in other Sections. 

The scale of the Menai project influenced contractual procedures and required many innovations in the organisation of the workforce. The management of skilled labour on massive yet relatively short-term undertakings had to temper exploitation with rudimentary concerns for health and safety if the nation s procurement base was to be maintained. The adversarial contractual arrangements of the period persist to this day, but the uncertainties of the new scale of construction initiated attempts at more rational risk apportionment. 

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