PIs have an abundance of responsibilities, serving on academic committees, teaching, running a lab, writing papers and grants, and management duties are some of the requirements. In this maze of tasks, it's easy to forget one of the most important aspects of the job–mentoring.

Employees often have ideas to help make their companies more productive and profitable. An employee involvement program is not merely a variation on the "suggestion box" but an opportunity to improve process and outcomes.

A new study by ScanSafe has found that workers spend nearly half of their online time at work surfing for gambling sites, chatting to friends on instant messengers or answering personal e-mail

A new study by Spherion Corp., a recruiting and staffing firm, has found that nearly half of all workers say their employer has no policy on office pools.

Nearly half of U.S. workers (49 percent) have participated

Many managers may fall into a common type of behavior, a fact that could have a significant affect on your career path.

Robert Half International has outlined many of these types, and offered specific coping strat

The California Unemployment Appeals Board has ruled against Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. in its effort to disqualify three former employees from receiving unemployment insurance benefits.

APDN, presently based in S

All laboratories have different research needs, technology requirements, and workflow patterns. Because of these unique features, each lab manager is tasked with what can be a difficult decision whether to bolster the lab with the assistance of a third-party facility or to do the work in-house.

A new study has found that employee retention is now a top benefits objective.

The MetLife report revealed that for the first time in the five years the company has been conducting the study, employee retention bea

It could take women 47 years to reach parity with men as corporate officers at Fortune 500 companies, according to a new study.

The research, by Catalyst, an organization that works to expand work opportunities for

Workers say they spend an average of 36 minutes per day attending to personal tasks during work hours, according to two surveys by staffing firm OfficeTeam.

Executives, however, suspect that number may actually be

The U. S. Department of Labor has published an interim final rule requiring the distribution of 401(k) type benefits for missing non-spouse beneficiaries from terminated plans to be rolled into individual retirement accounts.