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Show wz August 31, 1973 Ul By Jack Hancey In any other environment, the term "How goes it?" is simply a friendly greeting. In the Directorate oi Maintenance, however, it is much more than that. A spelling variant renders the single word, HOWGOZIT, a name that identifies a monthly briefing presented to Main- tenance management personnel to keep them apprised of Maintof the progress enance toward fulfilling its mission. Preparation and present- ation of the HOWGOZIT briefing is one of several important services provided the Evaluation Management Office (MAV). There is, in fact, almost no limit to the range and depth of by activities that Maintenance does not come under MAV's close scrutiny at one time or another. Regardless of what its name the Management Evaluation Office is not in to evaluate business may imply, management. Rather, it exists solely to a to service provide management by evaluating and reporting on the many facets of the Maintenance operations in terms of their other relationship to each and in terms of their impact the overall maintenance. on mission of Now. that's a tall order for an organization that includes fewer than twenty people. It's job that requires a highly developed analytical skill and an ability to sniff out those problem areas that, in the a aggregate, can do much to inhibit production if they are not isolated and corrected. basis for taking remedial action. The Directorate of Maintenance operates under an wherein the cost of labor and material incurred during the year can be recouped only by revenue from items of Air Force equipment that have been repaired and sold to a customer. No profit motive is involved, and the directorate cannot live for long with a deficit. Therefore, the desired objective is to break even at the end of the year. It is MAV's business to monitor the multitude of documents generated by the accounting systems to insure the desired objective is met. automated Several been have to account for developed to and tabulate expenditures revenue, as well as to provide operating procedures and programs The development and tracking of of such indicators productivity is MAV's prime RANDOLPH AFB, Tex. (AFNS) -- .A select group of professional registered Air Force nurses is driving across the country coun- seling young nurses about the opportunities in the Air Force Nurse Corps. are distributing nurse literature, They current media apmaking and sponsoring pearances news o The typical nurse coordinator is a senior first lieutenant or junior captain who has completed flight nurse school and has served overseas. THE YOUTH of a nation are the trustees of posterity. Benjamin Disraeli In this connection, MAV provides a service of importance to the directorate. It insures that any discrepancies brought to light by the Inspectors far-reachi- All imposed by the inspecting agencies. In a word, then, the Evaluation Management Office is the Watchdog for Maintenance. This is where performance levels are watched closely, where detailed information regarding any aspect of the Maintenance disseminated, i I Your Gift No. Main. Clearfield Expert Watch L Jewelry 183 Repairs Phone li-7S- J SELF DEFENSE EXERCISE RELAXATION - CLASSICAL located E For the serious - minded only, we teach the original of disciplines Self-Protecti- at 3650 Wall Ave. - on and confidence. Classes for Men, Women, Boys and Girls. Ogden 621-696- 1 or 399-441- 3 Ext 55 Mutual Benefit Insurance Agency TO E. Ward Headquarters Boat SELF-DEFENS- 3260 Wall Ave. F. Stewart o Heinz J. Bruehl o Junior PayTII Deduction Available August 23 - Evening REGISTRATION". i tch Aug. 24 & Aug. 27-3- 1 25 -1- -6 - .1-- 6 p.m. p.m. WASATCH ACADEMY 773-622- 1 5385 South 1 950 West ROY ft is where Merl's Jewefry are Warmly Welcome mm In the Federal Employees Credit Union Office PHONE: and adherence to the rules and regulations is monitored. Come Let Us Worship The Mutual Benefit Insurance Agency - operation Insurance through ng General at various levels throughout the Air Force have been acted upon and resolved within the time limitations - Motorcycle o Life House S7TiStepha Maintenance Nurses are Air Force recruiters o Auto N the operation. A major service provided by the Management Evaluation Office is to insure That organizations at all levels in the directorate operate within the frame work of existing policies and guidelines. Any operation as large and as through with subsequent investigations to insure that Management's corrective actions have, in fact, been carried out. follow 825-843- limitations. Somewhere in the 19 managem ent dissemination of information about Page Baptist on all your SAVE o concept d Maintenance tells function. Inasmuch as MAV is an thousands of pages of printoverall data collection point outs provided by those for the directorate, the Office programs every month is an is in a position to provide other indication of the state of the useful services that involve directorate's health. MAV the dissemination of inmust find it. formation. And when they discover that For example, the Office complicated as the depot the directorate is sick - even if cooperates actively with the repair function requires close it has only a minor case of the Comptroller in providing adherence to established sniffles - MAV's analyst must evaluation of performance for procedures of optimum find a trail through the maze the local management review results are to be expected. of data that will finally lead to To provide such service, and for the AFLC Comthe cause of the illness and mander's Conferences. teams from MAV actually what can be done to cure it. It acts as a focal point for visit the organization to be More often than not, that trail the exchange of data with evaluated where, in the winds in and out of several other AMAs and with AFLC. It presence of the supervisor or but interrelated independent provides special briefings to foreman, they examine actual and work practices in close detail machine programs. Obofficials visiting to determine compliance with other from such AMAs, viously, activity dignitaries demands a broad overall from AFLC, from the Air current directives. The team consolidates its knowledge of Maintenance Force and the DOD, and even States and from the United findings into a comprehensive programs procedures. The Management Congress. report that is submitted to the new Maintenance director and his function a Evaluation Office is the one Recently , the wherein deputy as well as the chief of place in the Maintenance has been added in the the division involved. all Office participates Directorate where The direcof the responsibility does programs come together. preparation not with Call. In end having unearthed Individually, the various torate's Commander's and in on any reported a discrepancy or programs are used and short, MAV is called of an important violation assessed elsewhere by people situation that involves the a who are experts in their use collection, evaluation, and directive. The office must then and who can, therefore, make the best use of them. But in MAV, the details of Church First all the systems are boiled 2025 West 5700 So. PASTOR LOGAN M. down to a relatively few inI I dicators that show where the 4 THOMAS, Th D Roy, Utah directorate is going in relation to where it should be going. Sunday Sunday School Services a.m. 9:45 55 10: a.m. nurse tours to Air Force and 7:30 p.m. T.U,6:30p.m. facilities. The office keeps a sensitive finger on the pulse of Ogden AMA's depot repair function. When they detect irregular- ties, experts immediately go miu aciion 10 dig out me causative factors, which they analyze in sufficient detail to give management a sound industrial-funde- I HILL TOP TIMES |
