In addition to the products introduced at Pittcon 2014 we’ve already profiled in our Technology News section, there were plenty of other exciting developments to share from the press conferences we attended in Chicago in March.

Work-family conflict is increasingly common among U.S. workers, with about 70 percent reporting struggles balancing work and non-work obligations. A new study by University of Minnesota sociologists Erin L. Kelly, Phyllis Moen, Wen Fan, and interdisciplinary collaborators from across the country, shows that workplaces can change to increase flexibility, provide more support from supervisors, and reduce work-family conflict.

The key to successful peptide mapping is generating reproducible, high resolution separations of peptides so that any subtle differences between sample components can be visualized. In this webinar, sample preparation techniques and LC instrumentation parameters will also be discussed in an effort to improve reliability.

As a consultant and professor, I see it all of the time. Organizations are structured to fail. We make it almost impossible for some people to succeed. One simple example (which we can detail in another article) is mixing short term and long term oriented groups under one manager.

Stereotypes waning as workplace values new paradigms.

Managing culturally diverse teams

In a Stony Brook University-led study that uses website-based experiments to uncover whether the age-old adage that “success breeds success” is a reality, researchers found that early success bestowed on individuals produced significant increases in subsequent rates of success, in comparison to non-recipients of success.

An employee asks you to pay for additional training that he says he needs to do his job better. How do you know that the training will benefit the company? Is he really asking you to fund skill building that will help him land a new job somewhere else?

Selecting the best candidates is the first stage of successfully moving someone into management. Developing skills and experience through exposure to a variety of situations is an important, relatively straightforward but not commonly done phase of a successful process.

APA survey finds only half of workers believe their employer is open and upfront with them

Findings suggest that use of laptops may hinder performance.

Free-flowing thought more likely while walking indoors or outdoors, research reveals