Bureaucratic Attitude of the Public Sector and Employee Attitude of the Private Sector in the Same Professions: Cases of Socialization of Researchers and Engineers in Science and Technology

This report compares attitudes towards the organization of researchers and engineers of public and private sector research institutions, awareness about missions, ethos and so on.This research is a comparative analysis by data using the same questionnaire on government laboratory and private company laboratories. Researchers from government research institutions are rich in research funds and emphasize raising performance in basic research rather than aiming for business efficiency and commercialization. Furthermore, they receive equal treatment as senior government officials and receive missions from senior bureaucrats. Their mission is expected to contribute to science and technology policy. There are also coaching on research results to SMEs etc. that can not have research institutions. As a result of the survey, we found that their ethos is a double standard of researchers and bureaucrats. In contrast, researchers and engineers at private research institute laboratories are employed in the same organization such as clerical workers, manufacturing workers, and salespersons, so they are expected as R & D workers and are synchronization with other workers is also required. They are expecting research that leads to commercialization, and under the management philosophy of Japanese companies, they receive training at factories and shops, and are asked for their attitude as employees. It is sometimes observed in synchronized behaviors in clothing and behavior. Therefore, even in science and technology researchers and engineers, there is a marked difference in the attitudes of organizational socialization due to the characteristics of the organization to which they belong, rather than occupational socialization.