CJA 356 Wk 1 – Organizational Behavior Challenges and Opportunities Analysis

Prior to beginning this assignment, complete both the Myers-Briggs Personality Types in the Criminal Justice Workplace activity and the Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™ in the Learning Activities folder. As these activities demonstrate, there are strengths that exist within different personality types. Gaining a deeper understanding of your personality type, and thus your strengths and behaviors, can help you be a better leader within a criminal justice organization.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you reflect on what you learned from your personality traits assessment, apply your findings to organizational behavior concepts in criminal justice, and discuss challenges and opportunities related to organization behavior in criminal justice organizations. Address the following in your paper:

• Describe the results of your Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test™ and relate those results to organizational behavior in criminal justice organizations.
• Explain how personality types impact organizational behavior in criminal justice organizations.
• Discuss organizational behavior challenges in criminal justice organizations.
• Discuss organizational behavior opportunities in criminal justice organizations.
• Describe how criminal justice subculture impacts organizational behavior in criminal justice organizations.
• Explain the importance of organizational behavior in the effective administration of criminal justice organizations.

Cite at least 2 sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

CJA 356 Wk 2 – Diversity in Criminal Justice Organizations Video

As a leader, embracing diversity within your criminal justice organization will help you build a team where all individuals feel valued, appreciated, and respected. In this assignment, you create a video describing the importance and impact of diversity to the organizational behavior of criminal justice organizations.

Scenario: The city has asked each criminal justice agency to contribute to a series of training videos for all new employees in the courts, law enforcement agencies, and corrections departments. You have been assigned the topic of diversity.

Select one or more of the following areas of focus for your video:

• Importance of diversity in criminal justice organizations
• Impact of individual differences within the organizational behavior spectrum of criminal justice organizations
• Impacts that diversity can have on criminal justice organizations
• Recommendations for how to improve diversity in criminal justice organizations

Create a 4- to 5-minute script for your video.

Cite at least 2 sources and format them according to APA guidelines.

Record your video using Microsoft® Stream™.

Note: For assistance uploading your video, refer to the Microsoft Stream Video Upload Guide.

Add your video link to the document with your script and references.

Submit your assignment.

CJA 356 Wk 3 – Summative Assessment: Individual and Group Behaviors in Team Management

You may have heard about individual accountability, mob mentality, and dynamic teamwork. These all represent different aspects of the continuum between individual and group processes and behaviors. As a leader in a criminal justice organization, you’ll want to be able to harness the benefits of working together or alone, while safeguarding against disadvantages. In this summative assessment, you complete SWOT analyses for both individual and group behaviors in the workplace and then you summarize your findings for effective team dynamics and strategies.

Complete the Individual and Group Behavior SWOT Analysis worksheet. Refer to Conduct a SWOT Analysis from the University Library to help get you started.

Write a 525- to 700-word paper describing how individual and group behaviors affect the strategies and processes of effective criminal justice organizational teams. Address the following in your paper:

• Identify key finds from your SWOT analyses of individual and group behaviors in the workplace.
• Explain the impact of individual and group behaviors in a criminal justice organization setting.
• Describe strategies to support individual and group ethical decision making.
• Explain how to leverage individual and group behaviors into effective team strategies.

Cite 2 sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your worksheet and paper.

CJA 356 Wk 4 – Summative Assessment: Challenges to Organizational Structure and Systems

As a leader in a criminal justice organization, you will need to be able to identify challenges to your organizational structure and systems and apply organizational behavior leadership philosophies and practices to resolve problems. In this summative assessment, you examine problems and propose solutions for an organization within the criminal justice system.

Locate a specific criminal justice organization that is currently undergoing organizational issues.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss the challenges to the organization’s structure and systems. Address the following in your paper:

• Identify and describe the selected criminal justice organization that is currently undergoing organizational issues.
• Describe at least 3 organizational issues the organization is experiencing.
• Discuss how the organizational issues and challenges affect the structure and systems of the organization.
• Explain how the organization has addressed cultural and gender challenges at the leadership level.
• Apply organizational behavior leadership philosophies and practices to provide at least one recommendation on how to prevent and/or mitigate each identified issue.

Cite 2 sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.

CJA 356 Wk 5 – Summative Assessment: Organizational Change Plan

Criminal justice organizations must be able to grow and change to improve and to meet the needs of a changing society. Effective organizational management can help facilitate the change process. In this summative assessment, you draft a plan for organizational change using effective organizational management strategies.

Imagine your criminal justice organization is facing a major crisis and you have been tasked with drafting a strategy paper on how to effectively address the needed changes.

Select a contemporary issue affecting one of the following areas of the criminal justice system: law enforcement, courts, corrections, probation/parole, juvenile justice.

Write a 1,050- to 1,250-word paper in which you describe how to effectively implement the needed changes that address the selected issue in your organization. Address the following in your paper:

• Identify the issue and why there is a need to implement organizational changes to your organization.
• Define a preferred change process strategy to deal with the issue.
• Explain the handling of resistance to change.
• Identify key barriers to effective communication.
• Indicate the methods needed to improve communication regarding the needed changes.
• Identify effective organizational management strategies to assess the changes after they are implemented.
• Explain how trust, conflict resolution, and negotiation influence the plan for organizational change.

Cite 2 sources.

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment.