SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP IN AN IN VITRO DIAGNOSTICS INDUSTRY

Abstract

Given the reinforcing to be sustainability in business operation, the sustainable leadership becomes alternatives to be practiced. In vitro diagnosis industry in Thailand could possibly deliver sustainability to their organization by adopting Avery’s 23 Sustainable Leadership Grid elements to examine their practices and improve to become more sustainable. To examine the close fit the practices between the Honeybee and Roche Diagnostics (Thailand) Company, the in-depth interviews, non-participant observation and the reflective note taking have been used for research methodology. The result indicates that there are 17 of Avery’s 23 grids representing RDT’s leadership close fit with the Honeybee elements on sustainable leadership. Thai healthcare enterprises even in in vitro diagnosis industry that would need growing their business with sustainability could adopt the Avery’s 23 sustainable leadership grid elements to guide their practices. KEYWORDS: SUSTAINABLE/ LEADERSHIP/ HONEYBEE/ PRACTICE/ IN VITRO DIAGNOSIS