Lab Culture
To broaden my understanding of people, I've spent time studying social styles and responses to conflict. I've also taken a great interest in Myers Briggs Personality Types. However, for the workplace, the DISC model might be one of the best tools for determining styles of behavior and how your employees work best.
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A Hastings Center workshop examining moral issues in synthetic biology completed its third meeting as the J. Craig Venter Group announced that it had created the first viable cell with a synthetic genome and President Barack Obama called on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to "undertake, as its first order of business, a study of the implications of this scientific milestone."
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The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Pittcon 2011, which will be held March 13 - 18, 2011, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
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For the second time in as many years, BioTek Instruments, Inc., has been selected as one of three finalists for the annual Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business of the Year Award.
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As thousands of Generation Y college graduates flood the workforce this spring, the nations employers may want to brace themselves for a new crop of entitlement-minded workers.
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Employee satisfaction surveys and facilitated focus groups help the employer identify areas of employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction. For accurate, reliable results, employee satisfaction surveys or focus group questions need to be...
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In order to continue to expand the horizon of scientific knowledge and retain the status of world leader in technology development, America will have to affirm its commitment to science and math education. As a first step in the effort, May 12, 2010 has been declared the first ever National Lab Day, part of President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" campaign.
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Neurological research and clinical care received a significant boost today as Imperial College London and McGill University of Montreal entered an agreement enabling them to work more closely together in this field.
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For most of the past two years, the leaders of the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (SBS) and the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) have been strategizing a merger to unite their scientific societies as one inclusive organizationthe Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS). As of Wednesday, May 5, both memberships officially authorized the merger with more than 95% of the votes cast in favor.
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Some people are more naturally open to change, while others are more entrenched in their routines and resistant to new things. Either way, the secret to bringing about meaningful change is allowing your employees to be actively involved in creating their transformation.
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Do you look forward to Monday morning? Are you raring to go back to work? Or are you a TGIF (Thank God it's Friday) kind of person who can't wait to get away from the job for a couple of days? You spend at least 8 hours a day at the job. That is almost 25% of your week. If you are a TGIF person you are missing something really important in your work life—passion.
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Even if your laboratory is not allowed to hire many new employees, the long-tem unemployed – chemists, other scientists, engineers and lab technicians unemployed for six months or more – can offer a valuable resource of you can persuade your budget p
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