Lab Management Planning Flashcards
State the management process:
P- planning
O- Organizing
D- directing
C- Controlling
Thought and analysis process that results in a formal strategy for realization of the goals of the organization
PLANNING
What are the steps in planning?
IEEXFIC
IDENTIFY THE GOALS
EVALUATE THE STITUATION
ESTABLISH TIME FRAME
SETTING OF OBVESTUVES
FORECASTING RESOURCE NEEDS
IMPLEMENT THE PLAN
CREATE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS
Where or what, does the institution wish to be?
Identify the goals
Set priorities
Identify goals
Knowing where u are and how you get there is essential
Evaluating the current situation
Understanding what resources are currently available and how they can be marshalled provides the base for any plan
Evaluating the current situation
Enables managers to plan where they want their organization to be in 1, 2, or even 5 years
Establishing a time frame
It is a broad long term ambitions of the organization
Goal
Is more philosophical marker; hard to determine exactly when it has been achieved
Goal
It is specific short-term standards that allows the manager to achieve the goal
Objectives
Specific benchmark, No questions as to whethef the standard has been met
Objectives
What are the characteristics of a good objective:
SMART
SPECIFIC
MEASURABLE
ATTAINABLE
RELEVANT
TIME- BOUND
Availability of current resources and possibility of obtaining the additional assets needed
FORECASTING RESOURCE NEEDS
What is the principal vehicle of the forecasting the resource needs?
Developing the lbs operational and capital budget
What are the avenues for implementation?
Tools of persuasion
Tools of control
Focus:
Working with and through people
Keywords in tools of persuasion
Communication
Involvement
Inclusion
Education
Training
Cooperation
Building confidence
Support
Consultation feedback
Sharing information
Responsibility
Allocation of resources
Tools of control
Two main tools control
Allocation of financial resources: selection of equipment and supplies and number of employees
Staffing, scheduling, and job assignments
Institution of needed revisions and corrections
Creating feedback mechanisms
What are included in avenues
- Formal meetings between managers and co workers
- Monitoring of standards of performance
- Informal meetings and conversations with staff and customers
- Analysis of the nature and types of encountered problems
Fmia
Program for managing an organization by setting and monitoring performance
Management by objectives
Characteristics of objectives in MBO programs
- follow well thought out plans and long term goals
- be based on a collaborative agreement between supervisor and employee
- be person- specific
- be within the power of the individual to accomplish
- be measurable
- Have a designated time frame
- Provide feedback and information to responsible employees
3 phases of implementation
Setting of goals and objectives
Sharing of the objectives with the staff
Coming up with a mutual agreement on the goals and objectives of the employee
Managers must set the goals and objectives for the organization to have a clear picture of what they wish to accomplish
Setting of goals and objectives
Employees should be given the opportunity to develop their own priorities from the guidelines presented by the managers
Sharing of the objectives with the staff
Simplest and most direct type of plan
Rules
Are guides to action, series of related task given
Procedures
