Lab Management Flashcards
RA, approval date, president and revision of the Clinical Laboratory Act of 1966
RA 4688
June 18, 1966
Ferdinand E. Marcos
AO 27 s 2007
What are the types under the ff lab classifications?
- Ownership
- Function
- Institutional Character
- Service capability
- Govt or private
- Clin pathology or anatomic pathology
- Institution-based or freestanding
- Primary, secondary or tertiary
Identify which type of lab can performed the ff services:
- Routine hema
- Microbiology
- Special chem
- Routine chem
- Routine fecalysis
- Blood typing
- Crossmatching
- Gram staining / KOH
- Secondary category lab exam
- Primary category lab exam
- Routine urinalysis
- Qualitative platelet determination
- Quantitative platelet determination
- Immunology / serology
- Special hema
- 1
- 3
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 3
Provides lab tests required for a particular service in institutions
Limited service capability
Identify whether the ff descriptions are for “leadership” or for “management”:
- A pattern of behaviors used to engage others to complete tasks in a timely and productive manner.
- Provides the “road” to get there.
- Uses certain talents to work with people to get things done.
- It requires an optimal mix of skilled personnel, dedicated people, and task-oriented ______ to achieve goal.
- Must be visionary and must set clear goals with strategic objectives.
- Used, in the most efficient manner, the human, financial, physical, and information resources available to an organization.
- Leadership
- Management
- Management
- Leadership
- Leadership
- Management
Leadership styles:
- Includes one or more employees in the decision-making process.
- All three styles are used depending on the situation.
- Leader dictates what is to be done and how it is performed.
- Leader confers the decision-making ability to the employees.
- Participative / democratic
- Combination
- Authoritative / autocratic
- Delegative
Theory stating that all individuals focus on the fundamental needs and once those are fulfilled, with progress to higher needs.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Enumerate the needs mentioned in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from the bottom to top.
Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem, self-actualization
Which among the needs in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, are considered as growth needs? How about deficiency needs?
Growth needs: self-actualization, esteem
Deficiency needs: love and belonging, safety needs, physiological needs
According to this theory, there are 5 managerial styles namely authoritarian, country club, impoverished, team and middle-of-the-road.
Robert Blake and Jane Mouton’s Managerial Grid
Identify the managerial style described:
- Low task and low concern for people; uses delegation as the primary management tool
- Low task-oriented with higher concern for people; uses reward to maintain discipline and encouragement
- Adequate concern for both people and production; balance between company goals and workers’ needs
- Highly task-oriented and high concern for people; leads by example
- Highly task-oriented with low concern for people; has little allowance for cooperation and collaboration
- Impoverished manager
- Country club manager
- Middle-of-the-road manager
- Team manager
- Authoritarian manager
Theory stating that employees base their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with work on hygiene factors and motivator factors.
Frederick Herzberg’s Motivator-Hygiene Theory
Identify whether the ff are under hygiene factors or motivator factors:
- Status
- Job security
- Advancement opportunity
- Wages
- Company policies
- Recognition
- Personal achievement
- Motivator
- Hygiene
- Motivator
- Hygiene
- Hygiene
- Motivator
- Motivator
Theory assuming that humans have an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if they can.
McGregor’s Theory X
Theory assuming that humans can perceive their job as relaxing or normal and exercise their physical and mental efforts in an inherent manner.
McGregor’s Theory Y
Theory assuming that humans need to be controlled, forced, and entices by rewards.
McGregor’s Theory X
Theory assuming that managers adopt a decentralized, participative management style
McGregor’s Theory Y
Acronym PODC stands for:
Planning
Organizing
Directing
Controlling
Process of influencing people to attain predetermined objectives
Directing
Process of formulating objectives and determining the steps which will be employed in obtaining them
Planning
Process of structuring activities, materials, and personnel for accomplishing predetermined objectives
Organizing
Process of determining that everything is going according to plan
Controlling
Identify whether the ff is under planning, organizing, directing and controlling:
- Making SWOT analysis
- Benchmarking
- Reviewing current situation in the lab to ensure there are no unattended details
- Empowerment
- Coaching
- Formulating goal
- Formulating objective
- Reengineering
- Planning
- Organizing
- Controlling
- Directing
- Directing
- Planning
- Planning
- Organizing
SWOT acronym stands for:
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
Answers the question “What is it for?”
A. Mission
B. Vision
A
Answers the question “what services do you offer?”
A. Mission
B. Vision
A
Long term goal
A. Mission
B. Vision
B
Areas to be improved
A. Strengths
B. Weaknesses
C. Opportunities
D. Threats
B
Potential problems/risks caused by external factors that your organization may face.
A. Strengths
B. Weaknesses
C. Opportunities
D. Threats
D
External factors that may contribute to your organization and can build up your strengths.
A. Strengths
B. Weaknesses
C. Opportunities
D. Threats
C
Areas you do well or advantages of your organization.
A. Strengths
B. Weaknesses
C. Opportunities
D. Threats
A
A type of plan described the day-to-day running of a company and includes single use plans or ongoing plans.
Operational planning
A type of plan described as: “plans made when something unexpected happens or when something needs to be changed”
Contingency planning
A type of plan aka backup plan
Contingency planning
A type of plan described as: focused, specific, short-term plans; supports strategic planning by breaking it down to actionable chunks
Tactical planning
A type of plan described as: “includes a high-level overview of the entire business; it is the foundational basis of the organization and will dictate long-term decisions”
Strategic planning
A type of plan that answers the question, “why things happen”?
Strategic planning
A type of plan that answers the question, “what is going to happen”?
Tactical planning
Identify each description whether it is a goal or an objective:
- Intangible and abstract
- Strategic
- Specific statements
- Defined short-term results or targets
- Tactical
- Tangible and measurable
- Broad/general statements
- Sets the long-term direction
- Goal
- Goal
- Objective
- Objective
- Objective
- Objective
- Goal
- Goal
SMART acronym stands for:
Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time bound
Reorganizing work process in an organization and determining if more effective processes can be implemented
Reengineering
Best process in one organization is modified to fit similar processes in another organization; the process of measuring products, services, and practices against leaders in a field, allowing the identification of best practices that will lead to sustained and improved performance.
Benchmarking
Measurement of an organization’s products or services against specific standards for comparison and improvement
Benchmarking
What type of communication flow is described?
From superior to immediate subordinate to provide instruction.
Downward
What type of communication flow is described?
Between people on the same level of authority.
Lateral
What type of communication flow is described?
From subordinate to immediate supervisor to provide feedback
Upward
What type of communication flow is described?
Between people who are neither in the same dept nor same level of authority within the org
Diagonal
It allows the instilling of confidence and motivation into an employee about accomplishing a task.
Coaching
The employee has more “say-so” in how to accomplish a task.
Coaching
It allows an employee to determine the task and how to accomplish the task.
Empowerment
Employees are allowed to be creative and innovative to solve problems and to take risks without fear of admonishment for failing.
Empowerment
Is the supply, labor, and overhead money spent on a product or service
Cost
Cost aka
Expense
Type of cost / expense:
Routine charge that does not change with test production volume.
Fixed cost
Type of cost / expense:
Related to all components considered overhead or administrative, such as marketing/sales, insurance, proficiency testing, utility expenses, etc.
Indirect cost
Type of cost / expense:
Changes proportionally based on fluctuations in test volume and hours worked
Variable cost
Type of cost / expense:
Related to all components associated with performing the test
Direct cost
Type of cost / expense:
Examples are lab equipment, reagents, consumables, hands-on technologist, service contract, and quality control
Direct cost