Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Community Management and Organization

Question: Describe the various aspects of the independent pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town. Answer: Introduction This paper describes the various aspects of the independent pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town. The objective is to evaluate the depth analysis of the pharmacist-in-charge (PIC) in an independent pharmacy. It enables to determine the worlplace health sales, teams, leadership, marketing, motivation and creativity in an independent pharmarcy. Part A: Workplace health and safety: An independent pharmacy in an Aldelaide hills town is affected with the several aspects of the market condition. Different staff and customer have a different criteria to protect itself from the independent pharmacy. (Carter Slack 2010). These are the separated measurement of the staff and customer of an independent pharmacy that is described below: Staff workplace health and safety: The staff health and safety measurement is followed by these points such as understand the risk, reduce stress in workplace, avoid stopping, protect your back body part, stay sober and wear protective equipment in an independent pharmacy company in an Adelaide hills town. (Chisholm-Burns, Vaillancourt Shepherd 2012). An independent pharmacy staff should understand the potential risk in it and try to find out optimum benefit of it. Staff should reduce the work stress due to long hours, job insecurity, heavy workload and conflict with coworkers or bosses. An independent pharmacy staff should design erogonomically designed furniture to get workplace health and safety. Staff should protect your body from heavy equipment of the pharmacy in Australian regions. Alcohol and drugs are the reason for the workplace fatalities in an Adelaide hills town. An independent pharmacy staff should wear protective equipment in wokplace to protect itself. Australia is w ell developed country that protect their workplace health and safety in an independent pharmacy in Adelaide hills town. An independent pharmacy should provide staff friendly environment for the organization that protect from contingency situation in the market. (Waterson 2014). Customer workplace health and safety: The customer health and safety measure in an independent pharmacy is applied by such points stay in queue, reach at time and follow the rules. An independent pharmacy customer in Adeliade hills town should stay in queues, when he want medicine for their specific disease that would save the time and protect the health. Customer should reach at pharmancy store on time because each pharmacy has specific time to open and close in particular day. (Waterson 2014). Customer should follow the rules of an independent pharmacy in Adelaide hills town such as avoid medicine after expire date. It will protect customer health in the workplace, when they takes a treatment in the pharmacy that located in an Adelaide hills town. Pharmacy school is teaching student that how to protect health and safety in workplace of an independent pharmacy in an Adeliade hills town. They trained pharmacists, those are engaged in pharmaceuticals, production, storage and drugs sup pliers. Customer should aware with old stock of medicine. Different patients bought a different kinds of medicion from the independent pharmacy store in an Adelaide hills town. (Taylor Harding 2013). Teams: Team cohesiveness is a large instrumental that contains sections of brass, woodwind and string instruments. Each of these instruments can produce a pleasant and unique sound. The same principle applies in groups such as groups should have cohesion, truly effective and member work together to work something special. (Burns Grove 2010). These are the several way to raise the team cohesiveness in an independent pharmacy that is described below: Regular meeting: It is the significant way to pharmacy employees to conduct meeting regular basis to understand their issue that provide an appropriate solution to reduce the issue in pharmacist in an Adelaide hills town. An Adelaide hills town pharmacy has five assistance. So, they need to conduct meeting to share their opinion with each others that would raise the quality of the pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town area. Employees meeting in pharmacy can help to new staff members to get know everyone. (Kalsekar, Sheehan Peak 2007). Employees of the pharmacy can discuss regarding the various kinds of medicine that how to protect from expire date and how to distribute in the market before expire date. So, patients can get more benefit from fresh product of medicine. Regular meetting could share their experience about the pharmacy industry in an Adelaide hills town because it helps to judge the temperature criteria that will help to judge which medicines are an appropriate for producti on purpose in this area. Different medicine requires a different kinds of temperature. So, it would be beneficial to share their experience about the last job. (Chisholm-Burns, Vaillancourt Shepherd 2012). Host celebrations: It can make pharmacy more special and welcoming work environment. Pharmacy reached the specific goal. Then, it would be beneficial for the employee life events. The celebration is necessary for the staff of the pharmacy that raise the team cohesiveness. (Carter Slack 2010). Create environment to work together with all assistance of pharmacy that would be more enjoyful for the employees lifestyle. It creates a proper working environment where employees will produce high productivity as compared to other pharmacy organization. (Kalsekar, Sheehan Peak 2007). Group training: It provides training to pharmacy staff to raise the skills to handle the different kinds of medicine manufacturing in an Adelaide hills town. All five assistance of the pharmacy would get training to provide better output from the market. Pharmacy organization requires a different kinds of the training program that would be helpful to achieve its objective or goals in the current competitive market. (Taylor Harding 2013). Different department requires a different kinds of skills and abilities to handle the manufacturing process of the pharmacy organization. It is becoming an essential part in the current competitive market because it requires a lot of efforts to trained employees as per their requirements. (Chisholm-Burns, Vaillancourt Shepherd 2012). Leadership: As pharmacist-in-charge (PIC) in Alberton pharmacy and Aldgate pharmacy, we develop a charismatic leadership style to lead the staff through including five assistancts such as Luke. Charismatic style is the significant to lead the Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy staff in Australia. It provides base for innovation and creativity. We lead the employees through maintain employee support, provide a good example of the leadership, develops an improved work environment and offer growth opportunity in Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy near location of an Adelaide hills town. (Babar 2014). It has some limitation that interrupts the charismatic style such as risk of lack of clarity, lack of successors and negative perception the leader. In spite of the several limitation, it is developing to leads employees of the Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy. Luke as assistant of the pharmacy is also helpful to develop the charismatic style to achieve the pharmacy objective or goals. Charismatic leade r would motivate employees from his skills and abilities. Staffs feel that their opinion and concern matter under this types of leadership. Charismatic leadership style has trickle-down effect on the pharmacy, where employees will take management optimism. Trait of charismatic leader helps to achieve the pharmacy goals and lead to employees of the Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy. Luke is one of the best assistance of the five assistance of the pharmacy. Luke has skills and abilities to achieve the Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy objectives. (Taylor Harding 2013). Further, charismatic leadership style is the significant way to lead employees by the skills and abilities of the Luke assistance in the Alberton and Aldgate pharmacy. (Hattingh, Low Forrester 2013). Marketing: Marketing is the significant tools that would helps pharmacy to select and raise their sales in the market. These are the reason behind to choose an Adelaide hills town pharmacy that is described below: Location: An Adelaide hills town is located in South Australia that would be beneficial for the organization growth and development because it has a good location for environment perspective. It has cold environment that would be beneficial for the medicine production in the market as compared to others pharmacy. (Carter Slack 2010). Environment plays the significant factor in the pharmacy firm because medicine requires cold environment to protect from germs, It is located near the hills that have a lot of an ingredient. It is beneficial for the pharmacy to get a raw material from near location that would reduce the cost of it. A low cost medicines attracts the dealer of it. Those dealer buy medicines in the high quantity that would prefer to buy from an Adelaide hills town because it provides low price medicines in the current competitive market. (Babar 2014). Competition level: It is the significant reason behind to choose an Adelaide hills town. Some other pharmacy are raised the quality of the medicine that located at end of the town. Competition is the part of the every independent pharmacy. (Veatch Haddad 2010). Pharmacy industry requires competition that builds the brand image of it as compared to others person. Five assistances of the pharmacy will raise the competition because they have experience from different area that would be beneficial for the organization growth and development. (Grenville 2015). Varieties of medicines: An Adelaide hills town pharmacy provides varieties of the medicines that is the main reason behind to choose it as compared to other organization. Liquid, tablet, capsules, topical medicines and drop are the significant types of the medicines. Due to varieties, it can be able to satisfied the all kinds of customer in the market. (Taylor Harding 2013). Tested medicines: It provides the testing before the launch medicines in the market that helps to customers. It is tested in the laboratory that how much risk involved in the medicines when it would be used by customers. An Adelaide hills town pharmacy is following the testing procedure for the medicines that define the risk and benefit of it. (Babar 2014). Motivation: As pharmacist-in-charge (PIC), we would use Lucke goal-setting model to motivate Luke through determination of the benefit of the Lucke goal-setting model in the pharmacy. It presented the clear goals and appropriate feedback to motive Luck as assistant of the pharmacy. The Lucke model presented that difficult and specific goal is harder for employees to achieve organization objectives or goals. (Grenville 2015). It is the significant component of personal development of Luck skills and abilities. Luke bored to chat with the female in routine assistance of dispensary product. So, Luke felt little nervous about female assistance. But, it is the good way to motives Luck that Lucke goal-setting will help to encourage them and it will help that how to handle this situation for the motivation. (Burns Grove 2010). Creativity: Creativity is known as generate ideas, alternatives and possibility that useful in solving problems with others and entertaining ourselves in the market. (Grenville 2015). These are the significant way to raise the creative thinking skills in staff that is described below: Train staff in innovation techniques: Pharmacy should train the staff in innovation methods that would be beneficial for the organization growth and development. Pharmacy can conduct training programs in formal methods such as mind-mapping worthwhile, brainstorming and lateral thinking. (Grenville 2015). An Adelaide hills town pharmacy should provide training programs to aware their staff with their innovative methods medicines manufacturing in the firm. It is one of the significant ways to raise the creative thinking abilities in staffs. (Nimmo 2010). Be supportive: Pharmacy should provide full support to their staff because it raises the creative thinking in their mind. So, staff could suggest some innovative idea in the mind. Supportive behavior raise the staff skills and abilities in the pharmacy firm. It is the significant way to raise the staff innovation in the pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town. (Waterson 2014). Tolerate mistake: An Adelaide hills town pharmacy should tolerate mistakes, if they desire creativity thinking in their staffs. If the pharmacy firm will raise mistake in their staff constantly. Then, it would be negative for the pharmacy growth and development. Everyone human does mistake in their business life. So, if the pharmacy will focus on their mistake. Then, it would be negative for the organizations growth and development. (Nimmo 2010). Act on an idea: It is useful in pharmacy, if it is an actionable at the movement because it raise the employees moral and confidence in the pharmacy firms. The pharmacy should provide time to raise the idea worth action upon. If you fail, it doesnt mean that your firm will fail to get innovative idea. The pharmacy will support in the staff innovative idea. Then, it would be beneficial for the organization growth and development. (Waterson 2014). Make time for brainstorming: An Adelaide hills town pharmacy should give time for brainstorming because it raises an efficiency of the staff in the pharmacy. A group engaged in brainstorming in a specific session is more effective than the sum of its parts. Individual staff can fit with each other such as testing, refining ideas and exploring. (Veatch Haddad 2010). Reward creativity: Pharmacy should provide reward system who creates an innovation idea for it. It is the significant way to raise the staff skills and abilities through rewards system. The reward should be different as per staff creativity of the idea and how much useful in the pharmacy firm. (Grenville 2015). The pharmacy provides rewards system to raise the employees moral and confidence that they will get more benefit, if they will do work hard in the production, marketing and technical department of the organization. It is the significant way to raise the creative idea of employees. (Nimmo 2010). Provide the importance of creativity: It is another significant way to raise the employees skills and abilities in pharmacy. An Adelaide hills town pharmacy should provide the importance of staff creativity that would raise the employees moral and confidence to create more innovation idea. Employees desire moral support from the pharmacy top management regarding innovative ideas. Out of them, one would be useful for the pharmacy growth and development. (Nimmo 2010). Part B: In this part, we will provide rank for six skills that is good for pharmacist. It is the following way to provide rank skills part such as workplace health and safety because employee want job and health security before join any organization. So, we will give first rank to workplace helath and safety. We will provide second rank to team skills because employees have to work in a team to run their business in the competitive market. We will provide third rank to leadership skills because it helps to lead the team that how to achieve the organization objective or goals. (Lacher 2008). We will provide fourth rank to marketing because helps to sales to the organization product or service that is possible after the good leaderhip in organization. We will provide fifth rank to motivatation skills that helps to raise employees confidence and moral that is significant for the organization growth. Last, we will provide six rank to creativity skills that is possible after the motivation of the employees. If employees are motivated then they will try to create something new in the organization that would be beneficial for the organization growth and success. (Hattingh, Low Forrester 2013). Conclusion From the above discussion, it can be concluded that clear workplace health sales, teams, leadership, marketing, motivation and creativity as well as high ability to adopt the new approaches in an independent pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town helps to survive in the current competitive market. Alberton pharmacy and Aldgate are the fast growing pharmacy in an Adelaide hills town due to their unique features to leads the employees. The Luckes goal-setting model is helpful to motivate the Luck lifestyle in the pharmacy. References Babar, Z, 2014, Pharmaceutical Prices in the 21st Century, Springer, New York. 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