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In November I wrote an article entitled, “Is Staff Turnover Keeping you Poor…Costs and Affordable Solutions”. The article identified eight simple tips to reduce turnover and related expenses. The tips detailed:
1. Involving staff in turnover reduction planning
2. Evaluatin

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

g your hiring process
3. Addressing communication issues
4. Recognition and praise
5. Staff training and development
6. Positive relations among staff
7. Starting the campaign with successful actions
8. Tracking actions

Business and human service leaders

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

everywhere understand the importance of reducing turnover. Clearly, turnover is an expense as well as a threat to the maintenance of quality products and services. Can we manage this problem or is it just part of the cost of doing business? Unfortunately there is very little data

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

to substantiate what works. But experience and employee surveys tell much about the roots of job dissatisfaction. Staff retention is related to two factors:

 Wages at market rate or above.
 Employers who treat their employees very well!

This article examines

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

organizational operations in seven areas. In each area we will identify practices that speak to hiring and retaining qualified and dedicated staff. How many of these practices does your organization have in place?

1. Hiring Process
 A marketing oriented statement spel

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ling out why a candidate would want to work for you.
 A hiring process that eliminates bottlenecks or proceeds so slow that candidates are lost.
 Clear descriptions of the requirements of your ideal candidate.
 Don’t “settle” by hiring someone

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

who doesn’t really meet your needs, just to get the position filled.
 Look for candidates with flexibility; today’s job requirements may change.
 Encourage in-house referrals; you will get them if your employees like working for you.
 Have ca

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ndidates observe the work environment…to see what is working and what isn’t.
 Give candidates the opportunity to interact with current staff and consumers of service.

2. Supervision
 Hold high performance standards with a low tolerance for inadequate perf

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

ormance; stress continuous improvement.
 Each employee should regularly receive at least one hour of private supervision.
 The results of supervisory conferences should be recapped while together. Any assignments and progress against goals and objectives s

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

hould be identified and memorialized.
 Provide specialized training and development for supervisors.
 Ensure that supervisors carry out their role in a professional manner.

Supervisors should:
o Follow-up on commitments made to supervisees
o Giv

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

e supervisees honest, constructive feedback about their performance.
o Ensure confidentiality of the supervisory relationship
o Take responsibility for their own errors in judgment or behavior.

3. Respect for Staff
 Listen and respond to staff suggestions; d

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

on’t just tell staff what to do.
 When developing new operational procedures give special weight to staff that will be heavily impacted by the change.

4. Staff Training and Development
 Invest in the development and training of staff.
 The dev

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

elopment plan for each employee should consider what each staff person wants to achieve personally.

5. Diversity
 Make sure your employees reflect the demographics of the community you serve.
 Recognize that diversity involves more than race, culture and

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

gender factors.
 Use a professional measure to identify employee styles and temperaments.
 Celebrate diversity and use it to strengthen the organization.
 Help staff to understand that true cooperation and team work results when issues can be o

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

penly discussed and not seen as personal attacks.

6. Communication
 Regularly survey staff to find out what they are thinking about the organization…positive and negative.
 Follow-up on employee suggestions so that employees know their input is valued and

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

used.
 Hold exit interviews with all departing employees and regularly review the data that comes from these interviews.
 Hold staying interviews to discover issues before turnover ramps up.
 Gather employee input anonymously through surveys,

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

focus groups, suggestion boxes.
 Use technology to keep staff updated on organizational events and concerns.

7. Hardware and Equipment
 Is your facility clean, safe, attractive and well-maintained?
 Do all the toilets work properly?
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y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

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What would your score look like? Review the seven areas with other concerned staff. Pick out the areas where your retention program can be strengthened. Set a few goals for the year.

The alternative to implementing a measurable and effe

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ctive staff retention program is to roll along, accepting turnover as a (rising) cost of doing business. The “do-nothing” strategy results in:
 Employees leaving and taking their knowledge with them…maybe to a competitor.
 Diminished workforce competency a

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

nd lower client satisfaction scores.
 Lower service levels and lost revenue.
 A drop in employee morale resulting overburdening remaining employees with additional duties.
 Increased costs for recruitment and training. Is there really a choice

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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