Organizational Behaviour and The Scientist

Bureaucracy has been the focus of studies in Public Administration. Bureaucracy normally consists of generalist administrators, specialists particularly belonging to the technical services and lower level functionaries. Scientists usually do not fit into any of these categories. But today scientists are very much a part of activity is different from routine functioning of an organization. Research demands creativity and innovation. The present study is an attempt to find out how scientists function in a governmental set-up, what kind of organizational problems they face and how best an organization can utilize their potential. In order to investigate some of these problems in depth, the agricultural scientists working for the Government of Rajasthan have been chosen. Agricultural research is a very major activity of its own kind both at the national as well as state levels. IT is mainly due to the efforts of the agricultural scientists that India witnessed Green Revolution and achieved much needed self-sufficiency in food. The Department of Agriculture of the Government of Rajasthan maintains a big research organization of its own. For purposes of the present study, scientists working at the major centers were interviewed on the basis of a detailed schedule. Besides interviews, discussions were held with the scientists and other government and non-governmental functionaries like those working for the Agricultural University. The study presents the important findings of this survey.