Predicting the job performance of scientists and engineers
文章预测科学家和工程师的工作绩效，指出两者对激励因素反应不同：科学家更关注专业同行群体，工程师更关注所在组织，并探讨了工作投入如何激励科学家这类全球导向的知识工作者。
Executive Overview The article focuses on predictions concerning the job performance of scientists and engineers. It states that there is an prediction by economic analysts that the number of knowledge workers, of which engineers and scientists are a part of, will increase in the future. It comments that while scientists and engineers are knowledge workers, they have differing reactions to motivating factors. It suggests that scientists have a greater focus on professional peer groups than within the organization they are employed by, while engineers have a greater local orientation. It examines how job involvement motivates cosmopolitan knowledge workers such as scientists.