Health & Wellness
It is ever more difficult to argue that motivating knowledge workers is not the Holy Grail for 21st century lab managers. “Leadership,” according to management consultants, “is the process of motivating people to work together to accomplish great things."
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As part of an effort to strengthen the scientific basis for forensic toxicology and drug testing, RTI International has created 'Forensic DB' (www.forensicdb.org), a web-based cheminformatic database for the retention, review and ongoing collection o
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Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D., talks to Tanuja Koppal about the new technologies he is creating for mining and sharing various types of data without compromising the security or privacy of the information.
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According to the Tony Wilson Blog, sleeping on it is the perfect solution if you have an important meeting or presentation to deliver. This is because sleep will help you consolidate learning and knowledge, and you might even have a Eureka moment the next day.
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Work can be a stressful place, wherever you earn your living, whether in an office, a factory, or a school. Some stress is good. It motivates us and makes us stronger. Too much stress is bad. It makes us irrational and it can, quite literally, kill us.
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Your policy regarding sick days can be a powerful recruiting and retention tool, especially when it involves Paid Time Off (PTO). PTO establishes a total number of days an employee can miss in a year. The problem with PTO is that employees will be reluctant to stay home when theyre sick, opting to cash them in as vacation days instead.
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Karen Sumberg, a vice-president at the Center for Work-Life Policy, talks about the very measurable effects of stress in the workplace.
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During a recent poll on interviews, Salary.com received an alarming number of reports from people who had been asked highly inappropriate questions during an interview.
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The recession pushes some to work harder than ever, but overextending yourself won't save your job, and it's unethical too, writes the Ethics Guy.
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Work can be a stressful place, wherever you earn your living, whether in an office, a factory, or a school. Some stress is good. It motivates us and makes us stronger. Too much stress is bad. It makes us irrational and it can, quite literally, kill us.
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Employees in even the best run practices are feeling the stresses of our volatile economy.
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Scientific research may not have made Health Magazine's top-10 list of the most stressful jobs, but most scientists experience considerable stress--especially early in their careers when an unsuccessful proposal or insufficient research productivity
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