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How do you add fun or humor to the workplace? Well, there is no simple answer and it is certainly takes more than just adding it to your mission statement or job description.

Let me give you four examples of

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

fun and not-so-fun workplace environments in the Las Vegas casino business. I have first-hand, inside experience with each of these major casino properties owned by four different companies. These examples c

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

Examples of combination products may in

an be applied to work environments outside the hospitality and gaming business.

Property A. I expected to find a fun environment in their workplace. For years I had seen cute, clever, funny advertisements en

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

ticing you to come play at their casinos. However I experienced none of that fun and joy in the actual workplace. Obviously, the people in casino marketing and the people in gaming operations were not the sam

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

people. To establish a climate of fun it has to be something that happens across the board in your company.

Property B. This was a company that was trying hard to recruit fun, smiling people. They were aggr

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

Combination pro

essively on the backs of new people if they were not smiling enough. I was scheduled for an interview with the casino manager and was told by a new employee, "Don't let it bother you that he never smiles." I

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

sat through the interview and sure enough, he talked about the importance of smiling, but he never cracked a smile himself! I took a friend to the casino floor later that week. His response when seeing the de

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

eanor of the employees, "Geez, where is the funeral!" And he was right, not a smile to be seen. The sad thing was that this was a casino where they wanted to do the right thing. It was a casino where they had

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

one of the best trainers in the business. But you cannot dictate smiles for the employees when the leadership at the top does not walk the talk and where the supervisors are suffering from terminal seriousne

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

ss.

Property C. On a night shift, two supervisors with personality differences got into a verbal fight. Fight is the right word. It was very loud, rude and nasty. And this was in front of the customers. Alth

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

ugh this had happened before, to a milder extent, nothing had been done about it. Hiring the right people is important. Getting rid of the wrong people is probably even more important. Or at least you need to

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

Following aspects would a

be dealing with the negative behavior and changing it. Along with that is truly promoting people on merit for the right things and not falling into the easy trap of promoting people primarily on seniority. H

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ead-under-the-rug management is never an effective way to create a fun environment. Proactive involvement is critical.

Property D. I found that this was a fun place to work. The employees liked each other. T

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

he employees liked the supervisors. The supervisors joked around. The casino manager smiled a lot and appeared to be happy. The focus of training was ensuring that the guests AND the employees enjoyed being i

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

the casino. And it worked. It was part of the mission statement and the philosophy was lived from the top down.

When you are in a fun workplace, you know it. When I lived in California, there were two groce

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

ry stores near my home. I always shopped at the one where the employees appeared to love their job. At the other store, they were just going through the motions. Happy employees draw customers like a magnet.

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

Property E. A casino I walked through last month impressed me. They had an area in the casino, let us say it was called the Party Room, with slot machines and table games. And I clearly noticed how strongly

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

he employees were living the theme. The employees truly seemed to enjoy their work. I was always greeted by eye contact and smiles. I was consistently invited to join a table if I was standing behind it just

.

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

watching the play. The behavior and quality of the employees was distinctively different from most other casinos. I do not know what their secret was, but suspect they worked hard to hire the right people, pu

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

t their best people in the Party Room, and ensured that the top management led the way by example. It does not happen by accident. A fun work environment is usually created by design and led from the top down

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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