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CALIBO
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I. MOTORBUS COMPANY: Que Sera Sera

II. Time Context

The company will be fielding an additional 50 buses in a month so Engr. Hermogenes

Ancheta should settle all misfits and do a recommended action plan within 30 days. The

timeline that Engr. Ancheta that will get must have a perfect decision, so he can provide a

perfect solution. Indeed this problem needs a lot of analyzation.

III. Viewpoint

This study should be observed in the perspective of Engr. Ancheta. His situation is very

critical since he carries the Maintenance Department on his shoulders. Therefore the

researcher must understand Mr. Ancheta side to create a good solutions and

recommendations, offer the proper distinct and a proper plan of action

IV. Statement of the Problem

The MOTORBUS COMPANY: Que Sera Sera (means “What will be. Will be”) is a

route of bus from Mania into Isabela. Engr. Ancheta has just received his appointment

papers from his new immediate superior, the Vice-President for Operations, he has been

promoted from Assistant Manager of the Maintenance Department. After congratulating

him from his promotion, the boss was gave him a verbal directive that he should put

some orders on his department and make it work in the effective an d efficient manner as

possible. Engr. Ancheta just passed the board examination on Mechanical Engineering

when he joined on the company in 1993, In June 1995, he informed his former classmates

that he has promoted as Assistant Manager for Maintenance then he was promoted again

into Manager when Engineer Gaudencio Inductivo, who in turn to be at 62 years old.

After the approval from VP for operations, the next day after the approval of the
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retirement of Engineer Inductivo, Enginner Ancheta received hia appointment papers on

promoting him as Manager. When Engr. Ancheta starts his duty, by the time, he inspects

the storage room and he found the uneven supply of parts. Some parts are excessive

quantities and some important one are inadequately stocked and the corner room contains

a big volume of obsolete parts.

The problem is how Engr. Ancheta will handle the operation while he’s new on his job as

Manager. While there are 50 more buses will added in the route for 100 buses will

servicing the various routes assigned to Motorbus Company.

V. Areas of Consideration

Engr. Ancheta as a Mechanical Engineering graduate then he work on Motorbus

Company as Assistant Manager of Maintenance Department. On 1993, when he joined in

the company, he passed the board exam for Mechanical Engineering. Then in 1995, he

informed his former classmates that he was promoted as Assistance Manager for

Maintenance. The former manager of the Department Engr. Inductivo, joined the

company since it stated the operations in 1989. A total of ten buses began plying the

Manila-Isabela route. The maintenance unit was put up the Manila in Sampaloc. Another

unit serves the Ilagan and Isabela terminal. Each unit has a full-time mechanic and a

single assistant. When a company bus comes in for repair, the mechanic diagnoses the

various automotive systems in the bus and later produces a list of parts that needs a

replacement. The mechanic sends the list to Engr. Inductivo, who in turn, forwards the

same to the company accountant for approval for the approval of the purchase request.

There are times that Engr. Inductivo performs the actual purchasing himself then later he

just sends the purchased items to the mechanic who made the request. The maintenance
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units were operating until 40 new buses were procured by the company in 1993. Since

then, every maintenance unit was so busy that they threatened to quit their jobs unless

additional mechanics and assistants were recruited. In the end of 1993, each unit has a

personal complement of 5 mechanics and assistants, but with the current developments,

the old method of purchasing was not improved. Purchase request started to embroiled,

the file endorsed becomes discreet. Mechanic and drivers began complaining to the VP of

Operations about the delays in the delivery of needed parts. Engineer Inductivo already

sent a note into the VP of operations that the problems must be solved immediately. In

the next day Engr. Inductivo was informed the VP for Operations that he will request a

approval for his application on retirement because he’s already 62 years old. The VP

forwarded the request to the President with an endorsing justifying the request. On the

same day, the approval was approved then after that, Engineer Ancheta received his

appointment papers promoting him to Manager. During his first appointment at Manager,

the first thing that he do was to inspect the storage room for parts then he found out that

the room was full of uneven supply. Some parts were of excessive quantities, while the

important ones were inadequately stocked. A corner of the room contains a big volume of

obsolete parts. At the end of the day, Engineer Ancheta was the VP of the company will

add new buses within 30 days, this means that next month that will be 100 buses that will

servicing the various routes assigned to Motorbus Company. Now Engineer Ancheta is

mulling over how he will make the operations of his department as efficient and effective

as possible.
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The areas of consideration are the ongoing disagreement with the maintenance personnel,

the old system of purchasing applied in the company and the bunch of problems about the

inventory of parts.

VI. Alternative Courses of Action

Since Engineer Ancheta just new on his job as appointed manager, he must prioritize on

focusing in the operations of the company to be adequate enough to work with it

efficiently and more effective bus servicing through the Philippines. As a manager, he

must need to know the employee under supervision like mechanic and assistant that they

might work with no other reasons for them to give their support to the company. This is

just giving him the idea that he need a better employee which has no other alternatives

just to work with the company with their full time basis. For that reason they may work

efficiently if they work together in helping each other in the company to support their

needs to have a better foundation of Motorbus business infrastructure. One effective way

to make sure that the bus will do a better service in travelling back to back to its

destinations is a conducting an additional training for the new employees . “What will be,

will be”, if they focus on that platform on their company, the determination of continuous

force on the job will improve.

VII. Conclusion

The business shown an increase in terms of numbers of buses and same as usual with the

profit they will also gain a better that what they had recently when Engineer Inductivo’s

in charge with the Management of the Motorbus Company. When Engineer Ancheta is

appointed as a new Manager, he’s now on his way to make a decision like a real boss of

the company, for that case his order is the way that the President of Operations will be
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respected. For the President knew that he is an honest manager to be appointed to handle

the operations pertaining with the Maintenance Department.

VIII. Recommendations

Furthermore, I recommend that they need another hired new employee since adding 40

new buses to be added to the Motorbus company assigned route. No one should be able

to quit, that as a result of a good performance in a part of a workforce he must convince

his employee under his supervision.

IX. Plan of Action

The first step for Engr. Ancheta is to set up a meeting on his department. In this meeting,

He will lay all of his proposition of the problems present in the department. To settle the

dispute on maintenance personnel, Engr. Ancheta must hire additional personnel and staff

since the company needs more manpower in 30 days. For the improvement of the old

method of purchasing, Engr. Ancheta must influence his sons to help him in the

company.

Lastly, to fix issues on the company, Engr. Ancheta must perform an inventory, If there

isn’t enough supply, the department must list all of the inadequate tools, if there is an

excess, there is a choice that they need to put it in the stock room or the department can

sell it into the retailers. For the obsolete parts, they must sold it in the junk shops.