Report
From:Jack Owens
To:President’s Advisory Committee
Subject:A Management Development Program for APG Electronics Inc.
Date:16 November,2006.
Here is the report that you have requested on executive development for the years ahead.(President Bellman’s memorandum of 10th November)
I interviewed 8 managers of our 8 departments and some 30 research workers,salesmen and other employees.
I also studied the management development programs of some prosperous industries over the past few years.
I came to the following conclusions:
(1)That some departments have ineffective management because:
①The department managers have too little autonomous decision power and have to make every decision according to our company’s policies.
②Some departments are too inclusive.For example,the MarketingDepartmentincludes sales of goods,after sales services etc.
(2)That we lack foresight to regarding market changes and market needs due to our poor research capability.As a result we often produce products that are out of date.By the time we find it out,know it and change our product mint,we have too much inventory in our warehouses that we have to sell at lowered prices.
Therefore I recommend:
(1) That every department manager be given the power to make his owndecisionso far as it is not against our company’s policies.
(2) That some big departments like the Marketing Department be divided into two separate departments.
(3)That a research group be organized to study and predict every sector in our production.And the group be directly under our company’s executive management.