Exam 14: Change and Innovation

Criminal justice practitioners were both trained to work with criminal offenders and mental patients.

A lack of clarity about the organization's mission and goals will make it difficult for the agency to promulgate policies and procedures and provide training that relates to current constraints on and expectations of its operational personnel.

Strict sentences have made it easier for prisons to release inmates who have completed the majority of their sentence and imprison newer offenders.

Garbage Can Theory, which suggests that organizational changes are typically less than a deliberate, rational process.

Planned Organizational Change consists of a set of activities designed to change individuals, groups, and organization structure and process.

Hage and Aiken (1970) found that change ready organizational share the following characteristics:

The criminal justice workforce is rapidly becoming diverse because of the inclusion of women and minorities.

_______ change is inadvertent or unplanned, independent of organization's control, and may come about in spite of organizational efforts at self-direction.

A performance gap is when an agency is performing improperly or below capacity and is recognized by agency executives, personnel, clients, or other constituencies.

Turnover of personnel will lead to different collective behaviors of organizational members, regardless of official agency goals.