Organizational behaviour management in clinical laboratory: A literature review

The clinical laboratories require organizational behavior management approach that creates a balance between directors' expectations and staffs' needs in this field. This study was aimed to explain the role of organizational behavior management in clinical laboratories and suggest mechanisms for its implementation in these organizations.

In this research, using several Persian and English databases by keywords consist of the clinical laboratory, organizational behavior management, and staff diversity. Three hundred and fifty four references from 1990 to 2020 were studied, and 72 references, including abstracts and full papers utilized for this research, and excluded papers presented at conferences, seminars, and dissertations. Using MESH strategy and Pico's instruction.

The results of studies revealed staffs' individual differences in all aspects, including early and secondary dimensions may influenced the style of leadership implemented in clinical laboratories, "job-personality compatibility theory," job satisfaction and job commitment of staffs work in clinical laboratories and the way the directors and managers can develop the job loyalty and improve the organizational productivity in these organizations.

It is suggested a conceptual model for understanding and assessing the different organizational behaviors of clinical laboratories staffs based on communication skills, staffs' interaction, and socio-political, economic, and cultural elements, which should be more developed in future using the other similar studies.