Lab Culture
Human resources transformation refers to the massive restructuring of corporate human resources (HR) departments that took place in the decade or so after 1995. Before that, the staff in HR departments had generally been seen as administrators, not as people to be involved in high-level strategic discussions. HR staff saw themselves as lifetime career specialists with little need for knowledge or experience of what the rest of the business was about.
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For six years, Pittsburg State and Cargill have worked tirelessly to create new polyols. On Thursday, the two took a break for a day to document that partnership.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced it is running a search for the oldest Thermo Scientific Multiskan microplate photometer in use.
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U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist Tiffany Santos has been awarded a L'Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science for her work in materials science at the Center for Nanoscale Materials.
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Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. has joined the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, which brings together pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hardware and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams.
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The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced that an agreement has been reached to begin a partnership with MipTec a European conference and exhibition.
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The expression the glass ceiling first appeared in the Wall Street Journal in 1986 and was then used in the title of an academic article by A.M. Morrison and others published in 1987. Entitled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of Americas Largest Corporations?, it looked at the persistent failure of women to climb as far up the corporate ladder as might be expected from their representation in the working population as a whole.
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A competitive spirit within any organization–business or research lab–is only fostered when management is trusted and members of that organization feel that their talents and contributions are appreciated and nurtured. Create that atmosphere and winning will happen.
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Research institutions all over the country are vying for a share of the $21.5 billion federal research money available under the stimulus package. Our survey says one of those institutions might be yours.
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Axing workers doesn't necessarily make a business lean and mean, says Harvard's Freek Vermeulen.
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On the Twitter homepage (http://www.twitter.com) is the following explanation: "Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are
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Unless you live under a very big rock, far away from all things technological, you have become aware of Twitter. Maybe more than aware. Maybe a participant.
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