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The quality of your staff induction plans says more about your managerial style and company culture than you think. At its simplest, employ

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

ees work harder for companies that care for them, and hard working employees keep customers happy, bringing money into the company. You put

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

Examples of combination products may in

loads of effort into attracting and retaining customers – can you say the same about your new employees?

Staff induction plans can range

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

rom pitiful, or downright boring, to effective ways to harness the enthusiasm and energy of your new employee.

Pitiful Induction Plans = D

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

is-heartened Employees

At the pitiful end of the spectrum, a new starter will be lucky to have a workspace waiting for them and maybe a co

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

Combination pro

uple of people say hello as they begin their new career. Why would this person bother to work hard when it’s obvious the manager and compan

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

don’t care about them?

Mediocre Induction Plans = Bored Senseless Employees

Okay, so you’ve got the message you’ve got to put some effor

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

t into a staff induction plan. At this point resist the temptation to dust off company annual accounts, health and safety folders and other

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

weighty, detailed information.

Information overload will dull the senses and de-energise quicker than you can say “the company had an out

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

tanding 9.73% year on year growth in pre tax profit in 2004”. Yawn!

Effective Induction Plans = Engaged, Enthusiastic Employee

So what is

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

an effective staff induction plan? If all you remember is that your new person is a human being, with all the associated wants and needs,

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

Following aspects would a

you will do well. No matter how senior, a new person will have concerns about fitting in or their ability to do the job, worry about gettin

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

lost or looking stupid.

Help them relax and engage in their new surroundings by addressing these concerns BEFORE you start on the company

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

indoctrination, oops, I mean induction :>)

7 Top Staff Induction Plan Tips

Here are some important tips or actions you may not see on re

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

gular induction plans;

- Show location of food, drink and bathrooms as a top priority.

- Have an expenses paid team lunch on first day.

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

Tell existing employees about the new person, and encourage them to stop by and say hello.

- Provide an organisation chart and office seat

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ing plan, to help make sense of the blur of people, names and departments.

- Have all security and passes ready and waiting.

- Advance bo

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

ok next 6 months review, team and other regular meetings.

- Have a trusted team member explain the unwritten rules and subtleties of offic

.

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

politics.

Staff induction plans set the tone of the relationship between employee and employer. With thought and a small amount of prior

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

organisation, you can get the relationship off to a flying start by using an effective staff induction plan.

Copyright 2006 Lyndsay Swinto

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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