Control Should Be Used to Determine the

¶ … control should be used to determine the direction to take Riordan? Riordan is a major corporation employing 550 individuals.

They have major ambitions and great ideals that include: Striving to be a solution provider for clients and not being part of the problem; and long-term relationships with clients that include " rigorous quality controls, innovative solutions, a responsive business attitude, and reasonable pricing." As regards their employees, Riordan intends to "maintain an innovative and team oriented working environment" as well as to ensure that employees are well informed and properly supported." Their future goals are to achieve and maintain "reasonable profitability." All of these goals are fine.

Their main problem now is to use assessment and feedback tools in order to determine and achieve their resolved direction. There are various tools and I would recommend the following: Employment performance Riordan seems to be operating well and successfully, but being that they have employees in three diverse places (Georgia, Michigan, China, with their headquarters in San Jose, California), I would recommend that they employ the Employment Performance assessment tool in order to gain feedback about their employee's work performance.

The instrument consists of annual and semi-annual performance assessment sheets that have several items intended to measure competence and performance of employees. Managers or supervisors of the disparate branches complete the forms. It would be advisable, too, that Riordan create one set of homogenous expectations and code of conduct relevant to all. The information is then pooled, shared, and used to identify and develop employee objectives and possibly provide future training if necessary.

Creating this form not only helps Riordan's employees but also helps the company in various ways, not least in seeking and eliminating discontent (that may destruct a company) but also augmenting its development. 2. Risk Assessment This tool will help Riordan identify and quantify business risks. Performance of an effective risk analysis will help Riordan not only create an accurate risk profile, but also help them, correspondingly, form a necessary risk assessment plan for the organization.

Concealed operational threats may lie in various areas of Riordan's enterprise from business processes to the physical subsystems to human resource areas. By investigating and uncovering them as well as, by consequently, structuring a plan to deal with their challenges, Riordan will be better placed to meet the future. B.

If the strategy of Riordan does not go according to plan, at what point would you consider altering the strategic plan you have suggested? Implementing change in any organization involves constant monitoring of effect and consequences of the change as well as ability to take effect. In Riordan's case, this will be done via assessment of the atmosphere and attitude of the various distinct workplaces (each of which possess a different culture therefore instruments and surveys have to be carefully and sensitively matched to their particular environment). Data.