The goal of lab management is to guide lab personnel to deliver their assigned duties within limited time and resources. This includes acquiring grants, personnel, equipment, or the necessary tools, as well as designing the workflow, overseeing the daily operation of the lab, and training new lab personnel. For the most part, lab management involves certain lab-keeping chores such as maintaining instruments, restocking consumables, scheduling, giving technical advice and keeping records of certain lab activities or incidences in the lab.
One important aspect of lab management is to ensure that the lab condition and personnel are up to contemporary standards.