BCMB 309: PRINCIPLES OF LAB ORGANIZATION & MANAGEMENT

Principles of Laboratory Management: Organisational structure: concepts and models; Principles of Leadership: Past, Present, and Future; Management Functions; Managerial Problem Solving and Decision Making.

 Human Resource Management: Human Resource Guidelines and Regulations; Job Analysis, Work Descriptions, and Work Groups; Supervision; Performance Evaluation and Professional Development.

Financial Management: Fundamentals of Financial Management; Effective Budgeting in the Laboratory; Cost/Benefit Analysis (Costing of Services; Justification for Introduction/ Continuation/ Discontinuation of a Service; Lease or Purchase decision analysis).

Operations: Laboratory design for different types and sizes of institutions (selection of equipment and systems, concepts of workstation consolidation, work flow analysis, concepts in laboratory automation [sample transportation systems, modular systems, robotics]); Procurement and Inventory Control; Work load statistics; Staffing; Personnel training and development; Equipment and facilities maintenance planning; Marketing Concepts. Public Relations.

General Principles of Quality Assurance and Quality Control:  Introduction to Quality Assurance; Quality Management System, Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC); Compliance/Regulations Issues: Laboratory Standards and their Main Features (ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 15189), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP).

Ethical Issues in Laboratory Management