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Cha is fine as a dumpstat for a fighter. If you really want to get the most out of your reach weapon, I would suggest working on tripping since a lot of reach weapons are also trip weapons (including the ripsaw glaive).
Step up and strike would be a mostly wasted feat since the enemy has to be adjacent to you. If it's already adjacent to you and wants to get away, it's probably going to provoke an AoO from you anyway since you have a reach weapon.
I'd also suggest changing your weapon to the fauchard (from classic horrors revisited). It's still a 1d10 reach weapon like the ripsaw glaive but it has an 18-20 crit range, which means you'll be critting more and doing more damage on average.
I'd do stats along these lines: 16, 16, 15, 13, 12, 7. Put your +2 human bonus in either str or dex and your level 4 stat increase into con. I honestly have no idea what order to take the feats in other than get the prereqs for things quickly.
I'd boost your Int to 13 so you can have a trip build, as someone suggested. This also gives you another skill point to play with, meaning you can have some utility outside combat as well. Knowledge Dungeoneering and Survival are always useful, as are Craft skills, etc.
Kyle Smith's role play suggestion looks good, except I'd drop Cha to 8 and raise Wis to 12 for a slightly better Will save. If you want any kind of charisma-based ability, it'd probably be Intimidate and you can take Intimidating Prowess if that becomes an issue.
Alright, I guess I do want to hear feat suggestions.
A trip build would be more viable than a movement based build? I didn't realize Step-up made it have to be adjacent.
I like the flavor behind the Ripsaw Glaive, but I suppose I could swap it out for a different weapon or one that doesn't require exotic weapon.
I went with Two-handed over polearm master because I like the double strength modifier for extra damage over the ability to attack adjacent, but I can look into it. I'm a little scared to go into a trip build, mainly because my GM has been around for a while, and remembers chain trippers. If I start doing something cheesy, he will too.
You're a fighter, you have more than enough feats to do both--especially since some you're not going to qualify for till you're higher level anyway. It's more that you have a trip weapon, you may as well use it for that when you have the opportunity--and it gives you something to do when your mobility doesn't help you. That's only going to eat 2-3 of your feats, which is minimal for a fighter.
Trip cheese was ripped wholesale out of Pathfinder, so your GM has nothing to worry about that--that was the fact that you got a free attack after tripping someone, which could be hideously exploited. That no longer works. Greater Trip does force the tripped opponent to provoke AOOs for the next round--which you can still take advantage of, and moreover, so can your party members, which makes it a great teamwork tactic.
If you don't want to do it, that's fine--you have a pretty solid idea. It's more just pointing out that you have a good opportunity to take that path if you want to.
Critting is always more important than a couple dice or a few points of static damage. As a fighter, you're going to have insane to-hit and static damage bonuses, and having a 30% chance per hit to double those static bonuses is damn good. That's the reason most of the two-handed builds use falchions (or fauchards).
A 28 point buy stat spread for a monk is decent. You could go for a spread like
Str 18 (16+2 racial)
Dex 14
Con 14
Int 10
Wis 16
Cha 8
If you really wanted to maximize stats, you could even do
Str 18
Dex 16
Con 14
Int 7
Wis 16
Cha 7
You'd theoretically have 1 build point left, but you couldn't use it.
Why Iron Will? As a monk, you have high saves in every save, and have a reason to have a decent score in the relevant ability scores, so for the most part I find +save feats not to be worth it. You're better off spending feats to increase the monks somewhat lackluster combat damage dealing ability and/or capitalize on his mobility and high CMB.
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Playing a silent character is something I want to play
28pt dwarf who talks with his weapon:
STR:17 (bump 4th)
DEX:12
CON+19 (bump 8th, 12th, and "tome")
INT:12
WIS+15
CHA-05
1. barb1
2. cler1 ... Domains: Community, Travel
3. (mix figh and barb to taste, with at least four levels of barb; with Reckless Abandon and Quick Reflexes your two rage powers)
Feats: Raging Vitality, Power Attack, Steel Soul.
Combat technique: Drink potion of Enlarge. Smile menacingly.