Audit
It is common for an audit to produce a corrective action plan that identifies steps to correct non-conformances to a standard, principle or practice. In the example below, an information security audit has identified several poor practices and vulnerabilities. The corrective action plan maps out a path to improve information security.
Incidents & Problems
A corrective action plan is often developed in response to an incident or failure. This process begins with a root cause analysis that identifies underlying problems that represent a risk of future incidents. The following example is a corrective action plan produced in response to an outage of a software platform.
Employee Performance
An employee who receives a poor performance review may be given the chance to improve by establishing a corrective action plan that sets expectations for what is required to get back to satisfactory performance.
| Overview: Corrective Action Plan | ||
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Definition | A set of actions designed to correct an issue, problem, non-compliance or underperformance. | |
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