SGER: Leadership in the Laboratory: Defining Best Practices for Mentoring Academic Scientists

在学术研究环境中对科学家的有效管理是非常成功的研究项目的关键组成部分。然而，许多新的首席研究员（PI）缺乏适当的领导技能，因此在建立一个富有成效的研究企业和维持赠款资金方面面临着一场艰苦的战斗。当PI在实验室管理中摇摇欲坠时，他们的职业发展沿着受到学术机构和资助机构在这些研究项目中所做的大量投资的威胁。这个项目的目标，这将是在教师休假期间在得克萨斯州A M大学和哈佛大学进行，是要确定是否博士后研究员和年轻的PI可以受益于了解企业管理的基本原则，从而在他们过渡到独立的研究生涯中得到帮助。管理方面的审查是：1）领导风格，促进创造力，弹性，生产力和合议; 2）识别和招聘合适的人的方法; 3）培训和促进知识转移的最佳方法;和4）了解来自不同背景的人的工作风格。

Effective management of scientists in academic research settings is a key component of highly successful research programs. Nevertheless, many new Principal Investigators (PIs) lack the appropriate leadership skills and as a consequence face an uphill battle in building a productive research enterprise and sustaining grant funding. When PIs falter in lab management, their career advancement is jeopardized along with the considerable investments made by academic institutions and funding agencies in these research programs. The goal of this project, which will be conducted during a faculty sabbatical leave at Texas A&M University and at Harvard University, is to determine whether postdoctoral fellows and young PIs can benefit from understanding fundamental principals of business management and thus be assisted in their transition to independent research careers. Aspects of management to be examined are: 1) leadership styles that promote creativity, resiliency, productivity and collegiality; 2) methods for recognizing and recruiting the right people; 3) optimal methods for training and promoting knowledge transfer; and 4) understanding working styles of people from diverse backgrounds.