Book Reviews and Notices : Scientific Research: Its Administration and Organization. Edited by GEORGE P. BUSH and LOWELL H. HATTERY. (Washington, D. C.: American University Press. 1950. Pp. viii, 190. $3.25.)

• Author: Marver H. Bernstein
• Date: 01 March 1951
• Published date: 01 March 1951
• DOI: 10.1177/106591295100400161
• Subject Matter: Articles

182

Appropriately,

the

first

chapter

in

the

section

dealing

with

terms

of

employment

concerns

itself

with

the

problem

of

loyalty

in

the

public

service,

and

with

the

equally

important

and

hotly

debated

question

of

the

political

neutrality

of

public

servants.

The

authors

here

present

an

excellent

factual

account

of

the

current

status

of

the

federal

loyalty

program

and

of

American

legislation

dealing

with

political

activities

of

public

employees,

together

with

a

careful

analysis

of

the

immediate

and

long-range

implications

of

both.

To

the

section

dealing

with

personnel

machinery,

there

have

been

added

chapters

on

the

operating

personnel

office

and

on

personnel

organ~

ization

and

problems

in

the

international

field.

The

latter

is

particularly

interesting

even

though,

as

the

authors

themselves

indicate,

it

may

be

only

a

beginning

of

the

work

to

be

done

in

this

field.

There

is

an

excellent

annotated

bibliography

at

the

end

of

the

book.

This,

with

the

authors’

clear

and

easy

style

and

their

meaty

discussion

of

what

are

clearly

the

major

problems

in

the

field

of

personnel

admin-

istration

today,

makes

this

new

edition

of

a

most

respected

book

a

highly

commendable

and

usable

piece

of

work.

University

of

Alabama.

VIOLET

A.

EARLE.

Scientific

Research:

Its

Administration

and

Organization.

Edited

by

GEORGE

P.

BUSH

and

LOWELL

H.

HATTERY.

(Washington,

D.

C.:

American

University

Press.

1950.

Pp.

viii,

190.

$3.25.)

This

volume

is

adapted

from

the

proceedings

of

the

First

Institute

on

Administration

of

Scientific

Research

and

Development

presented

by

the

American

University

in

Washington,

D.

C.,

in

cooperation

with

the

National

Research

Council

and

the

American

Association

for

the

Ad,

vancement

of

Science.

The

purpose

of

the

Institute

was

to

explore

prob-

lems

of

the

administration

of

scientific

research

and

development

in

gov,

ernment,

industrial,

and

university

laboratories.

Both

the

Institute

and

the

book

were

premised

on

the

belief

that

organized,

cooperative

research

on

a

large

scale

presents

a

new

challenge

in

administration.

The

thesis

of

the

book

is

that

orderly,

prudential

administration

will

provide

the

laboratory

environment

that

will

bring

about

effective,

cooperative,

organ,

ized

research

and

yet

retain

safeguards

to

the

freedom

of

individual

research.

The

discussion

is

divided

into

six

parts.

Part

I

describes

various

types

of

research

organization,

including

sponsored

research

and

govern.

ment

research

contracts,

and

the

coordination

of

federal

research.

Part

II

outlines

the

role

of

research

directors

in

planning

and

scheduling

research

programs.

Part

III

deals

with

problems

of

research

personnel,

including