Competing effectively in a complex global marketplace requires more than just having technological parity with foreign countries. It also requires the effective management of that technology, the people, the organizations, processes, and overall resources. Modern management tools have been developed that can respond to this challenge, but many of today's busy managers, caught up in the necessary rush to generate new products, processes, and services, haven't heard the good news. Hans Thamhain's Engineering Management gets the good word out - clearly and forcefully. He skillfully combines 20 years of R&D and technical management experience with eight years of field research, to show you how to manage technological developments and lead technical personnel in a team-oriented work environment. The book integrates engineering methods with modern management tools and techniques to forge a powerful approach for dealing effectively with the many interrelated variables involved in the management of today's technology-based organization. Engineering Management gets the word out in the most direct way possible - including checklists, figures, tables, forms, practical recipes, case histories, and simulations that turn concepts into practical prescriptions that you can use at work. With each successive chapter, you'll grow more confident in your ability to lead and motivate your workforce; stimulate innovative performance; oversee technical projects and engineering work; manage new product developments faster and more cost effectively; exercise financial control over projects; measure financial control over projects; effectively utilize computer-based decision support systems; allocate your peopleand other resources most effectively; understand joint responsibilities, organizational interfaces, and team buildings; integrate total quality management efforts, manage conflict, change, and development; develop winning bid proposals - and more. The appendices in Engineering Management build on the principles and techniques discussed in the book's 15 chapters, providing management guidelines in such areas as project planning, tracking and control, as well as new business acquisition. A sweeping mandate for improving technology-based organizations through the effective control of their resources, Engineering Management should be required reading for every engineering, technical, product, project, and R&D manager. It will also prove to be an important text for instructors of advanced undergraduate courses in engineering, business, and management.