For your Midterm Essay Examination, you will respond to all five questions presented. This exam covers Chapters 1-8, of the assigned textbook. Be sure to go through all of the assigned readings, module notes, PowerPoint presentations, and videos in the Learning & Assessment Activities page before you begin this examination.
Each answer must be at least 250 words, double-spaced, with citations for stated facts. Complete the Midterm Essay Examination by responding to the following questions:
1. You have been hired, as a consultant, by a large criminal justice agency, which is struggling with organizational transformation issues. You are to identify and discuss the main issues commonly involved with organizational transformation within the context of the various organizational frames.
2. Discuss the major environmental influences on criminal justice organizations.
3. Identify and discuss the various steps and barriers to communications and provide examples using criminal justice organizational settings.
4. The chief of the department has asked you to explain the pros and cons of both the Quality Circle Program and the Management by Objective Program before deciding which program to adopt in the department as a motivational tool to improve organizational goals and outcomes. Describe what recent research has revealed regarding the effectiveness of both these programs.
5. Explain how leadership investment strategies are critical to criminal justice organizations. Why do so few criminal justice organizations not invest in them?
Keep the following in mind when completing this essay examination:
- When developing your answers remember you must include (cited) facts to support the major points in your response. Your responses should not include continuous citations without your thoughts and analysis, as well. Rather, your responses must reflect a balance between facts and your perspective on the points you make.
- Your responses to each of the quiz questions should be a minimum of one page (250 words) and a maximum of two pages in length, double-spaced and written in 11-point Arial font or 12-point Times New Roman.
- Include the question you are responding to immediately before each answer.
- Include a title/cover page.
- Include cited references and format them in the American Psychological Association (APA) writing style (6th edition).
- Submit your quiz in one MS Word document and place it in the appropriate assignment drop box for grading.