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We’ve all had them, intelligent, talented, and educated employees, who have been assigned certain tasks on which they never take initiative, or never finish – but are always one step away from the great break

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

through that will make all this talk without results pay off.

Procrastination is simply continuing to put off doing something, a decision or an activity, for whatever reason. But you may not want to lose tha

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

Examples of combination products may in

intelligent, talented, and educated employee. People procrastinate for a variety of reasons. On the job, reasons may include any one or combinations of the following:

Fear of failing or succeedi

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

ng. The employee may be concerned with the consequences of failing at the task or the consequences of outstanding achievement which might bring more workload with higher expectations.

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

m>Negative belief about the end reward. Past experience tells the employee that hard work on this type of task will not be recognized or rewarded, so why bother?

The work environmen

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

Combination pro

, including other people. For some tasks, the physical environment where the task assigned may be too noisy, quiet, bright, dull, hot or cold, or the other people around may be demanding too muc

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

h attention on other tasks.

The belief or knowledge that the task is too big. A task can be assigned that really is simply too large for the employee to manage. For example, an admi

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

istrative assistant who has been in charge of inter-office communications, business letters, etc. might be given the task of writing company policies and procedures. As time moves on and the scope of such a p

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

oject sinks in, the employee may start to doubt having the ability to accomplish it or know they can’t complete the task.

Tips to help managers overcome procrastination problems

The first t

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

hing the manager or task owner needs to discover is the reason for the procrastination. Talk with the employee about the reason for the problem, then give them direction for completion or make necessary chang

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

s in the task assignment. What are some positive directions or changes management can make to help bring the task to completion?

If the employee may be concerned with the consequences of failing

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

Following aspects would a

r succeeding at the task, then address those issues and be clear about what the consequences actually might be. If the employee is still uncomfortable with the task, it’s time to assign the task

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

to someone else.

If the employee believes the task will not be recognized or rewarded, explain the importance of the task to the company’s bigger picture and as above discuss real

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

utcomes.

If the employee is distracted by the physical environment or other people where they are expected to perform the task, see if you can limit distractions or move the locatio

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

for task performance and make sure the employee is not having to multi-task for other people when working on the problem task.

If the employee believes or knows the task is simply too large,
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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
rong> your first action should be to go over the task with the employee and determine if this task is really too large or difficult for the person assigned or if that is a misperception on the employee’s
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
part. If you believe the task can be completed by the employee, brainstorm solutions with them, help them break it down into achievable chunks, and set deadlines. However, the task may actually be too large f
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
r one person or that particular person as in the example given above with writing policies and procedures. If this is the case, decide which solution will be the best course of action. Should you assign a tea
.

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
m to the task? Can you spare that kind of manpower, and do you have teamwork down? Should you hire a professional consultant to work with the assigned employee, at least to a point where it becomes a manageab
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
e task for the employee? There are lots of options here.

After these types of positive action on the part of management are taken, the employee should be motivated to stop procrastinating and finish the task

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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