Ace Electronics: Lack Of Controls

Ace Electronics, issue stems from the lack of control from each member of the company. Being the owner of the company, Al entrust his employee interactions to his supervisor. His supervisor lacked the capability to catch the issues within the company. Or, he ignored the lack in enthusiasm within the employees in how they performed. In turn, it began to show in the company’s profit margin and employee morale. As supervisor, his duties is to control the operations for Al, since he has the most interactions with employees. Implementing the simplest form of controls.

In my opinion, foolproof controls which require constant acts performed by their supervisor and Al. If performed correctly and religiously, can assist in making sure operations are preformed correctly. Nonetheless, Al lacked this control within his company, and resorted in extremes such as “bird-dogging” to quickly resolve the issue. Despite wanting to resolve the issues in the company. Having his supervisor watch the employees hour by

hour, made the employees feel that he didn’t care.
However, Al and his employees are not getting the same feedback.

As the owner of the company, Al main concerns could be taking care of his business, and making sure they thrive. Since the beginning of the company, Al’s has been profiting in his business. So, his main concern could be to keep his cost down and his profits up. As for Al’s employees, seeing in the course of six years he has done nothing to fix issues within the company. His employees could assume Al could care less about the status and morale within the company. Therefore, they could believe their actions is not effecting the company’s in a negative way. Along with, the fact his supervisor was not providing adequate information about his employees to Al and vice versa. He failed to follow the chain of command, dealing with employees whom, were lacking in their duties within the company. As a result, Al lacked in the communication with his team. Thus, his supervisor and employee lacked respect for his

company.
All in all, Al should try to invest not only in his company but in his staff. It’s already proven that Al has a successful business. Now it’s time for him to show his employees how much he appreciate their hard work. Also, since Al is reluctant on firing his senior employees from the company. Al needs to form an incentive for his valuable and hardworking employees. This will increase company morale, so workers will know what they are working towards. Al’s also needs to establish some type of control. This will to wean out employees whom are not benefiting the company long term.