Term Paper: Management Analysis of a Manufacturing Company

A. Introduction
As a term paper for the subject Theories of Management, the performance of the management of the ACMC Quality Assurance (ACMC QA) section is analyzed.
The analysis is subdivided according to the four management functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. In the Organizing section, the organizational chart of ACMC QA is the one analyzed. In the Leading section, both Leadership and Motivation are analyzed. Strengths and weaknesses are identified in the analysis. To conclude the report, these strengths and weaknesses are prioritized and matched to optimize their usefulness.

Before the analysis, it is important to note that there are actually five leadership positions the ACMC QA and that these positions, and not of the ACMC QA Manager alone is analyzed. The five leadership positions are: the QA Manager (QAM), the Out-going QA Supervisor (OQA), the In-Process Quality Control Supervisor (QCS), the Customer Quality Engineering Team Leader (QETL), and the Improvements Quality Engineering Team Leader (QITL). The supervisors and team leaders are direct reports of the QA manager. They are held by low to medium grade level staff and not by managers. And although, it does not seem fair to evaluate these staffs in terms of management, the author’s (the QAM) purpose of making the evaluation is not to appraise their individual performance but to know the weaknesses of the ACMC QA section so that the section may develop further, especially in terms of the first-line managing staff.

B. Planning
A graphical representation of the ACMC QA planning cycle is shown in Figure 1. The ideal case should be that goal and strategies effectively go down the chain-of-command and that feedback should also be given going up also effectively.
Figure 1 shows that the Top-to-Middle