Case Study 3 Motorbus Company
Case Study 3 Motorbus Company
Summary
Engineer Hermogenes Ancheta has just received his appointment papers from his new
immediate superior, the Vice-President for Operations, he has been promoted from Assistant
Manager to Manager of the Maintenance Department. After congratulating him from his
promotion, his boss gave him a verbal directive that he should put some order in his department
and make and make it work in the most effective and efficient manner as possible without
incertitude.
Engineer Ancheta has just passed the board examination for Mechanical Engineering
when he joined Motorbus Company in 1993. By June 1995, he informed his former classmates
at the University of Santo Tomas that he has promoted as Assistant Manager for Maintenance.
Inductivo, who in turn to be at 62 years old. After the approval from VP for operations, the next
day after the approval of Engineer Inductivo retirement, Engineer Ancheta received an
By the time on his duty as a manager he inspects the storage room and he found the
uneven supply of parts. Some parts were in excessive quantities and some important ones were
inadequately stocked and the corner room contains a big volume of obsolete parts.
The problem now is that how he handles the operation most effectively when hes just
new to his job, while there are 50 more buses added in the route for 100 buses will servicing the
How will Engr. Ancheta manage to improve the operations of the Maintenance
1. They must conduct an additional training for the new employee that they may hire.
2. Engr. Ancheta must fix the problem in the supplies.
3. Consultation from the superior on what will he do, for he was only new to this position.
For Engineer Ancheta since hes just new on the job as appointed Manager, he must
ponder on focusing in the operations of the Motorbus Company to be adequate enough to work
with it efficient and more effective bus servicing through the Philippines. As a manager, he must
need to know the employee under his supervision like mechanic, 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
They must conduct an additional training for the new employee that they may hire, just to
make sure that the bus route will do a better service in travelling back to back to its destinations.
The mechanic should have their support as a maintenance that every unit must be checked before