Infrastructure and staffing resources sometimes fall behind research initiatives and expanding grant portfolios. Increased employee turnover leaves vacancies and contributes to loss of institutional knowledge, putting constraints on existing resources. This session will explore how operations can be scaled to provide continued support for research, how to recruit, retain, and promote from within, and how to recognize when you need more people and how to make the case to leadership.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss what makes people stay at or leave jobs (in regard to the current working environment)
Review how we ethically structure our research environments, and the impact of using a structure that does more with less (i.e., impact on people, research, etc.)
Consider how the aforementioned factors impact how we recruit/retain staff (e.g., hiring practices, job descriptions, interviews, etc.)