Outside consultants for increasing the efficiency of the company might seem counter productive to some as it is the employees who are more aware of the lackings and improvement opportunities of the company. But the importance of outside consultant can not be overstated and might be the deciding factor in the turbulent economic condtion. While the statements provide a popular opinion regarding employee empowerment and extracting solution from within the system, this approach has some fundamental lackings.
Firstly, companies mainly hire outside consultants for their expertise. Most of the companies focus on their 'base business' and develop expertise in operating business smoothly during an expected circumstance. But when there is a different project or changed circumstance in the organization, the company might lack in expertise and hence might be a victim of poor efficiency and reliability. Then the expertise and skill sets of outside consultants come handy. The consultants generally have vast and diverse experience in the business which might not be achievable 'in-house'. We can see this kind of situation in a lot of oil and gas operator companies. While the big operator companies masters the day to day reliable operation, during major project or changed business condition they have to bring in the outside consultants or service companies. This practice not only helps them to improve efficiency but also maintain a balanced outlook for the future.
Apart from expertise and experience brought by outside consultants, the unbiased position of them is also valuable for the company. When the employees of any organization provide opinions, there is a fair chance of being biased based on their position and experience. Thus, critical decisions like vendor selection, cost cuttings, lay-offs etc. might not be effective if the company tries to exercise these by their own employees. But outside consultants are free from these prejudices and biased viewpoints. They are generally in a better position to make disinterested observations and decisions.
In addition, sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can solve a convoluted problem which may be affecting the company. The employees might fall prey of 'Normalization of deviation'. It is a phenomenon when a deviation from right practice occurs for a long time and the personnel within the organisation starts believing the deviation to be normal. Such normalization of deviation may cause the company reduced efficiency and financial loss. These situation are best picked up by the outside consultants as they do not fall victim to the company culture regarding 'how it is done here'.
Some people might argue that, employees are more aware of the company problems and they might be the best source for developing the solutions to these problems. This is true for day to day problems but when the need for seeing the big picture comes into play it is not helpful most of the time. The employees might think within the box where the outside consultants will be able to assist them to broaden their horizon and ultimately make the organization more efficient.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 432, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this situation' or 'These situations'?
Suggestion: This situation; These situations
... reduced efficiency and financial loss. These situation are best picked up by the outside consu...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'apart from', 'in addition', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.258911819887 0.240241500013 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.140712945591 0.157235817809 89% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103189493433 0.0880659088768 117% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0431519699812 0.0497285424764 87% => OK
Pronouns: 0.031894934334 0.0444667217837 72% => OK
Prepositions: 0.106941838649 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0356472795497 0.0406280797675 88% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.95249811526 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0225140712946 0.030933414821 73% => OK
Particles: 0.00187617260788 0.0016655270985 113% => OK
Determiners: 0.125703564728 0.0997080785238 126% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0300187617261 0.0249443105267 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0168855534709 0.0148568991511 114% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3124.0 2732.02544248 114% => OK
No of words: 497.0 452.878318584 110% => OK
Chars per words: 6.28571428571 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.382293762575 0.366273622748 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.338028169014 0.280924506359 120% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.255533199195 0.200843997647 127% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.189134808853 0.132149295362 143% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95249811526 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 219.290929204 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480885311871 0.48968727796 98% => OK
Word variations: 55.6968129789 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6194690265 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.88 23.380412469 85% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.2526874885 59.4972553346 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.96 141.124799967 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.88 23.380412469 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.64 0.674092028746 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 53.6828169014 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.86086956522 1.64882698954 113% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301785549084 0.391690518653 77% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106149828007 0.123202303941 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0666295581119 0.077325440228 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.512401573018 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.147055430491 0.149214159877 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119855223811 0.161403998019 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737803270826 0.0892212321368 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.435035872182 0.385218514788 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0577323285632 0.0692045440612 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.218937025574 0.275328986314 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0393257388698 0.0653680567796 60% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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