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Laboratory Management and Leadership - Report

   

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Laboratory management andleadership

TABLE OF CONTENTSESSAY.............................................................................................................................................1Main body........................................................................................................................................1REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

ESSAYLeadership is an art of motivating a group of people to act towards achievement ofcommon goal. Laboratory management refers to the continuous process that want to effectivelyand efficiently achieve the objectives of medical laboratory (McPherson and Pincus, 2017). Thegoals of medical laboratory is to provide better and accurate answers that contribute towards theclinical treatment. From the effective research, there are different management style likeAutocratic, consultative, persuasive ,democratic, persuasive, democratic, chaotic, laissez faire,management by objectives and management by walking around. Different organisation in healthcare sector use different style of management according to their work culture. The term'laboratory management' is synonymous with the term 'top management' in ISO 9000. Someimportant standards are determined by the world health organization related to laboratorymanagement like quality management, users satisfaction, use of appropriate medical devices.Main bodyBased on the quality and laboratory management guideline of who and Iso 18025,organization needs to have clear structure with the clear responsibilities and accountabilities.Thus, it is led by the director and lab also bears a clear legal autonomy along with theaccountability. It refers of all the activities like effective allocation of resource, timemanagement, quality, roles and accountabilities have been clearly determined by managementstructure of laboratory which is also different in various countries and organization. Further, thedesigned structure of laboratory is based on the goals and objectives. It allows an easyfacilitation and effective management of processes of laboratory and the communication fordiscussions (Mortimer and Mortimer, 2015). Further, structure will also allow effectivedelegation and control over the processes of management in which the every one can report tothe higher authority or the directory of laboratory. Director of laboratory is the key position inlaboratory management structure which controls on all the other members and containssubordinates like quality assurance head who is responsible to ensure that effective qualityshould be maintained by employees in clinical laboratory. At next level, there are two keypositions like technical superiors and administration and finance head who are also considered asleaders of their subordination. Further, subordinates of technical supervisor includes analysts aswell as technical assistant and AFC's subordinates involves the receptor, maintenance staff andcleaning staff. Leaders and director of laboratory department is responsible for the task of1

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