Lab Culture
What can senior managers do when outstanding staff members are moved into a management position and dont do well?
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In reviewing this year's survey results, it is not surprising to discern a noticeable belt-tightening on the part of management and a rise in the subsequent stress felt by lab employees.
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Heidolphs innovative Demos for Donations program has shown continued success in raising over $1500 for autism research, treatment, and advocacy through Autism Speaks, www.autismspeaks.org. The overwhelming support of ACS members for this disorder, th
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As an important component for fulfilling its national missions, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has announced its plan to hire up to 300 new employees before the end of 2010 and is seeking to fill positions for engineers, computer scien
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The primary basis for employee job satisfaction is your personal relationship with your manager. Next is importance is your personal relationship with coworkers and the people that report to you. Only then do broad personnel practices come into play.
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EAS Short Courses emphasize practical and economical problem-solving topics which will include material that you can take home and immediately apply to your daily work. These courses will be taught by a group of distinguished instructors who are well
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The old saying, When the cat's away, the mice will play, rings all too true for many a manager. Wouldn't it be great if you could always trust every employee to be just as productive when your back is turned? There is something you can do to help.
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Many laboratory professionals reaching traditional retirement age are finding creative ways of staying in the workforce. What they are doing is often more than just working full-time past age sixty-five. This is occurring even as many mid-career and
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The Laboratory Products Association (LPA) will hold its 2010 Annual Meeting November 7-9 at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, CA. Attendees will be able to take advantage of extensive networking opportunities, education for both personal enrichmen
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Results from our fourth annual Salary & Job Satisfaction survey
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Noted actor and long-time host of PBS Scientific American Frontiers, Alan Alda, will go head-to-head with world-renowned physicist Brian Greene in a conversation entitled, "Why Communicating Science Matters," to commemorate the establishment of the C
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According to a quarterly Associated Press survey of 42 leading economists, economic growth will slow from 3.5% to 3.0% in the next 18 months (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38457713/ns/business-economy_at_a_crossroads). The primary reasons are slow hiri
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