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Drugs Shortage and Supply Chain – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1029 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1029 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing our contributions here. Credit: Alexander Israb Credit: Chanaka Credit: Mikail Nilov Preamble Supply chain is the major stakeholder in the availability or otherwise of the drugs in the market. It is because supply chain integrates the elements which result in availability of products in the market. Therefore, the credit and discredit both go to them. Let us examine the elements of supply chain individually to understand their role and impact, and then see how it may be improved. Material Planning and Procurement Planning Material planning is the first step. In some organizations, planning is an elaborate affair where several people work. In many other organizations, the system is rudim...

Cyberloafing at Workplaces – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post 958 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Credit: Jopwell Credit: Pixabay Cyberloafing Cyberloafing refers to the act of employees using their company's internet and digital resources for personal purposes during work hours. This can include activities such as browsing social media, shopping online, watching videos, or engaging in non-work-related communication. While seemingly innocuous, cyberloafing can significantly impact productivity and organizational efficiency. The issue becomes even more serious when the staff engages in watching immoral content.  Although internet technology is installed to increase organizational productivity, this is not the case in practice. Technologi...

Emotional Profiles of Bosses – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #909 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #909 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Karolina Grabowski Credit: Maksim Goncharenok Credit: Nicola Barts Credit: Ono Kosuki Dear Readers! Thank you very much for taking keen interest in the ‘Emotional Profiles of Bosses’ series of blogs. It is now time to conclude this discussion. I shall also raise few questions for discussion. Why Did I Call it Emotional Profiles? We, as human beings, learn our behaviors mainly through emotional experiences. Whatever we live through during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood shapes our emotional profile. Generally, we do what we see. Teams working with p...

Workplace Demands, Enablers & Disablers – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #899 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #899 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: MART Production Credit: RDNE Stockproject Credit: Zen Chung Workplace demands, enablers, and disablers are integral factors influencing productivity, satisfaction, and overall well-being in a work environment. Let us look at these factors in some detail and see how the demands may be met in a better way. Workplace Demands These are the aspects of a job or work environment that require sustained physical, cognitive, or emotional effort from employees. Presently, most workers are ‘knowledge workers’, which means that they are expected to have knowled...

Managing Time in 2024 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #895 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Stas Knop Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Mizuno K Year 2023 was extremely turbulent and threatening due to wars, climate disasters, large-scale immigration, refugee crises in many places, almost collapse of international banking system, extreme power struggle in many regions, near death of cryptocurrency, and monstrous rise of Artificial Intelligence. The turbulence is far from over, and new challenges shall come our way in 2024.  The biggest challenge, however, shall be time, time management, specifically.  When we say, ‘time management’, it does not mean th...

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #733 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #733 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk These blogposts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. During June of this year, I had presented findings from the Global Talent Competitive Index Report 2022 and showed in detail where did Pakistan stand among nations and among countries of the region. It was a series comprising of ten posts. The purpose was that we could understand the grimness of our situation and take some actions for improvement. The governments are not always the best ...

Employee Engagement – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #687 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #687 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Andrea Piaccquidio Photo Credit: Fauxels FACTORS THAT PROMOTE ENGAGEMENT Creating and maintaining employee engagement is a continuous effort. It is neither off/on nor something that once created shall stay forever. Globoforce reports that 36% businesses see employee engagement as a top challenge. My own experience in several organizations who sincerely wanted to create employee engagement tells that it is a constant effort at multiple levels. We shall discuss the situation in Pakistan separately. Research and surveys have identified several factors that promot...