Lab Leadership
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) Foundation has established the Vittorio de Nora Prize for Environmental Improvements in Metallurgical Industries.
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Scientific management was the first big management idea to reach a mass audience. It swept through corporate America in the early years of the 20th century, and much management thinking since has been either a reaction to it, or a development of it.
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A study of conflict in the Canadian workplace
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Dissatisfaction may be on the rise among your best performers, according to research from the Corporate Executive Board. You can get them to stay–if you pay.
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Lab Manager, as the business management advisor for R&D decision makers, will launch an annual, independent research project to determine the markets investment trends and activities.
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Lab managers have a responsibility to see that appropriated funds are used wisely and in accordance with their laboratories' business goals.
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Due diligence in purchasing requires an investment in time and resources to manage risk and obtain the most value for the money. This requires some oversight of the actual buying cycle and is not a trivial task. How complicated is the process at your
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It seems as if we've been preparing for this recession for two or three years, constantly predicting it and staving it off as long as we could, all the while listening to the media tell us that it was just around the corner. And now that it is here -we're witnessing a new media-inspired cottage industry building up around the "down economy" and the bad times that are upon us and that lie ahead.
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Learn at Lunch is a way to get more training done by making the lunch hour multi-tasking.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced the winner of the LabAutomation2009 $10,000 ALA Innovation Award.
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LabAct is an educational management program using Improv Theater to explore problems and solutions to common laboratory situations.
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As technology has played a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined, while our visual skills have improved, according to research by Patricia Greenfield, UCLA distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Children's Digital Media Center, Los Angeles.
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