Lab Leadership
Retention programs are as diverse as the businesses that implement them, but an ideal retention strategy is comprised of three key elements.
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A new report from the National Academies contradicts an earlier one from that organization on whether women in academe face discrimination in hiring, promotion, and access to resources. The current report, released last week, finds rough parity between the sexes, even though the earlier report, released in 2006, contends that women do face discrimination.
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One hundred years ago (in 1908), a group of higher educators launched a new professional masters degree called the MBA. Their aim: to meet the anticipated needs of 20th century business, which would be characterized, they thought, not by product spec
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In our June Leadership & Staffing article, author Allison Champion describes her lab's cross-training program in which technicians develop capabilities in more than one area and adjust their focus as needed to alleviate workflow bottlenecks.
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Conferee Networking Sessions are free to all registered Pittcon 2010 attendees and provide an open forum for people to establish new friendships, alliances and communication in an informal environment.
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Watching, listening to or reading the news you will "know" that new layoffs are announced every day, a shaky stock market is followed more closely than ever, and uncertainties seem to be everywhere. This article is written to address this current situation, but the lessons apply to any challenging time you and your organization may be facing.
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was officially dedicated Friday, May 29th, setting into motion the next chapter of one of the countrys greatest scientific assets.
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Human resources transformation refers to the massive restructuring of corporate human resources (HR) departments that took place in the decade or so after 1995. Before that, the staff in HR departments had generally been seen as administrators, not as people to be involved in high-level strategic discussions. HR staff saw themselves as lifetime career specialists with little need for knowledge or experience of what the rest of the business was about.
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For six years, Pittsburg State and Cargill have worked tirelessly to create new polyols. On Thursday, the two took a break for a day to document that partnership.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced it is running a search for the oldest Thermo Scientific Multiskan microplate photometer in use.
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U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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In Management 101 we covered the four principal parts of management: plan, execute, monitor, and adjust. It is important to remember that all four are essential. You will never make it to the other three if you get hung up on the first one. While planning is important, you have to get beyond that and get the work done. Analysis paralysis can be the death of any organization.
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