What a Histotechnician can do to Keep Peace in the Lab – Part One
Some amount of arguing and bickering goes on in nearly any workplace. Laboratories where histotechnicians work are no exception. Conflict if left unresolved can damage the lab environment by compromising relationships between histotechnicians and in turn causing stress on the job. Stress on the job means more turnover, and more absences. The end result of conflict will often be lower productivity. Even with perfect management, conflict between histotechnicians will probably still exist, but proper management can bring lower the level of conflict significantly.
Controlling and minimizing conflict is easier for a histotechnician when the reasons why the problems come up in the first place are understood. Often, disagreements come up between two histotechnicians and are based upon personal feelings. Reasons that two histotechnicians might harbor negative feelings for each other might include differences in religion, politics, race, mannerisms, and personalities.
Disagreements about work related things are quite common also. Histotechnicians will argue about who is doing more work or who is taking more breaks. Sometimes a histotechnicians will blame an error on another histotechnician.
Conflict is much more likely between histotechnicians when there are misunderstandings. Communication is one of the most important things histotechnicians can work on to minimize conflict. It can be so easy for two histotechnicians to have an honest misunderstanding that leads to conflict.
Check back soon for part two of this blog.
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Source:
Koehler, Amanda (October 20, 2008) Controlling Conflict. Advance for Medical Laboratory Professionals. page 24-25.
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