This assignment and the plans and recommendations within it are based on a large company employing 250-300 staff at any one time and operating out of the United States of America. Its background is in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and some grocery products and at its height in the 1990’s was turning-over upwards on £52 million.
In this section we will give some background information on the company and assess what barriers the company experienced to effective performance management and make recommendations as to what the company may be able to do in order to improve this. …