Lab Management Planning

Question 1

State the management process:

Answer 1

P- planning
O- Organizing
D- directing
C- Controlling

Question 2

Thought and analysis process that results in a formal strategy for realization of the goals of the organization

Answer 2

PLANNING

Question 3

What are the steps in planning?

Answer 3

IEEXFIC
IDENTIFY THE GOALS
EVALUATE THE STITUATION
ESTABLISH TIME FRAME
SETTING OF OBVESTUVES
FORECASTING RESOURCE NEEDS
IMPLEMENT THE PLAN
CREATE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS

Question 4

Where or what, does the institution wish to be?

Answer 4

Identify the goals

Question 5

Set priorities

Answer 5

Identify goals

Question 6

Knowing where u are and how you get there is essential

Answer 6

Evaluating the current situation

Question 7

Understanding what resources are currently available and how they can be marshalled provides the base for any plan

Answer 7

Evaluating the current situation

Question 8

Enables managers to plan where they want their organization to be in 1, 2, or even 5 years

Answer 8

Establishing a time frame

Question 9

It is a broad long term ambitions of the organization

Answer 9

Goal

Question 10

Is more philosophical marker; hard to determine exactly when it has been achieved

Answer 10

Goal

Question 11

It is specific short-term standards that allows the manager to achieve the goal

Answer 11

Objectives

Question 12

Specific benchmark, No questions as to whethef the standard has been met

Answer 12

Objectives

Question 13

What are the characteristics of a good objective:

Answer 13

SMART
SPECIFIC
MEASURABLE
ATTAINABLE
RELEVANT
TIME- BOUND

Question 14

Availability of current resources and possibility of obtaining the additional assets needed

Answer 14

FORECASTING RESOURCE NEEDS

Question 15

What is the principal vehicle of the forecasting the resource needs?

Answer 15

Developing the lbs operational and capital budget

Question 16

What are the avenues for implementation?

Answer 16

Tools of persuasion
Tools of control

Question 17

Focus:

Answer 17

Working with and through people

Question 18

Keywords in tools of persuasion

Answer 18

Communication
Involvement
Inclusion
Education
Training
Cooperation
Building confidence
Support
Consultation feedback
Sharing information
Responsibility

Question 19

Allocation of resources

Answer 19

Tools of control

Question 20

Two main tools control

Answer 20

Allocation of financial resources: selection of equipment and supplies and number of employees
Staffing, scheduling, and job assignments

Question 21

Institution of needed revisions and corrections

Answer 21

Creating feedback mechanisms

Question 22

What are included in avenues

Answer 22

1. Formal meetings between managers and co workers
2. Monitoring of standards of performance
3. Informal meetings and conversations with staff and customers
4. Analysis of the nature and types of encountered problems
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Question 23

Program for managing an organization by setting and monitoring performance

Answer 23

Management by objectives

Question 24

Characteristics of objectives in MBO programs

Answer 24

• 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

Question 25

3 phases of implementation

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Managers must set the goals and objectives for the organization to have a clear picture of what they wish to accomplish

Answer 26

Setting of goals and objectives

Question 27

Employees should be given the opportunity to develop their own priorities from the guidelines presented by the managers

Answer 27

Sharing of the objectives with the staff

Question 28

Simplest and most direct type of plan

Answer 28

Rules

Question 29

Are guides to action, series of related task given

Answer 29

Procedures