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A few highlights from the September issue of Lab Manager
Magazine:
Feature Article -- What Motivates Your Employees?: Motivational
practices have come a long way since the old carrot-and-stick
model--the hope of gain and fear of loss--that prevailed for
centuries. Today's best motivational practices for knowledge
workers embrace intrinsic factors while generally assigning a
lesser role to extrinsics such as remuneration and perks.
Technology & Operations -- New Apps for Texture Analysis:
Advancements in the science of texture analysis have made
possible the development of instruments that have revolutionized
both R&D and quality control, not only in the food industry but
also across a wide range of other industries. With consumers
better informed, it's expected that all industries will produce
products that deliver better health and greater economic value.
Business Management -- Activity-Based Management: Activity-based
management (ABM) is an approach to management in which work
process managers-in this case, lab managers at all levels-are
given the responsibility and authority to continuously improve
the planning and control of operations. There are many ways ABM
could help your lab.
Have a colleague who may be interested in Lab Manager Magazine?
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Here in Japan, public research labs cannot easily employ professional technicians because the Ministry of Education (short name) has never recognised Professional Laboratory Technician as a job category that needs to exist and be funded, for public research.
Universities have professors and students (the latter are now in short supply), with no technicians in between to keep the labs running and humming. So a lot of equipment is poorly maintained because neither the professors nor the students have time to maintain it properly, and no one has professional technical training for handling equipment in the first place. With few younger students to replace the experienced older students, there is a quiet crisis in skills transfer happening here.
Surely there are business opportunities here if ways can be found to work around and within the existing system for managing laboratories in Japan. Maybe this is why Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has set up a shopfront in Kobe to offer technical services in molecular biology and bioinformatics. I hope their business is successful!
They will need more than a shop front though. They will really need to talk to the people in labs and learn about the problems faced by Japanese researchers trying to work in a cost-effective manner with public funds that are managed from the top-down in a cost-ineffective manner.
This is ultimately a problem of public administration that all countries face, not just Japan.
We need public research, and we need responsible, monitored use of funds -- but researchers who are doing non-routine, exploratory research also need flexibility in how they use funds.
P.