title: Personnel management.
abstract: When a pathologist becomes the director of a clinical laboratory, his job description changes, and most of his professional training and experience becomes incidental and largely irrelevant. This article discusses the qualities necessary for effective leadership, the various styles of management popular today, and the tools a manager must develop and use in order to effect a chosen style of management.
mesh_terms: D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010559:Personnel Management