C200 Management Analysis College of Business Information, Western Governors University (13pages)

Management Analysis This paper aims to contemplate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of an organization and a leader within this organization. This type of analysis helps determine an organization’s assets, detects where they can improve, how they can improve, and other possible issues they might have to look out for in the future. The leaders of the organization use this assessment to improve themselves continuously and the operations of the organization. A. Organization The Organization The Utah Aircraft Engineering Organization (UAEO) “provides war-winning expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter through world-class logistics, support, maintenance, distribution and engineering management for actively flying, mature and proven weapon systems. It is one of three complexes assigned to the Air Force Sustainment Center.” (HAFB, 2016) History and Background In 1934 Utah and military leaders concluded that Utah was a good area for a permanent air depot. In 1935 Congress approved the plans, and in 1940, the first construction began. On 7 November 1940, Colonel Brosnan, the first commanding officer, began his four-year duty tour, marking the logistics and maintenance unit’s formal activation. UAEO snowballed to its full strength during World War II while providing vital repairs and support for various wartime missions. After the war, though, the workload and employee numbers declined rapidly. In 1950 unrest in eastern Asia brought back the numbers, and UAEO grew once more. Since then, the