Assignment:
Case Study - Preventing Child Abuse
Introduction
1. Summarize the case? Did you explain the history of the DOW, the decision to reorganization the agency, and what happened during the process?
2. Identify the problem(s) that Patton faces?
Analysis of the Political and Administrative Environment
3. Analyze the political environment? (E.g. did you discussthe reasons behind elected officials' motivation to create separate departments responsible for service and payments?)
4. Analyze the administrative environment? (E.g. did you discuss administrative issues such the uncertainty for employee's future, their morale, disagreements, relations with the union and so on?)
5. Discussthe interplay between politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups (politics of the administrative structure)?
Evaluation of the Reorganization Decision
6. Discuss whether the reorganization decision was based on political or technical rationality?
7. Analyze the case from an accountability perspective? Did you identify the accountability issues before the reorganization decision? Did you identify any potential accountability issues after the reorganization?
8. Identify any challenges that the street-level bureaucrats (i.e. DOW employees) were facing before the reorganization?
9. Discuss whether the reorganization of the DOW would eliminate some of those challenges or create more?
Recommendations
10. Make recommendations to Patton about what to do regarding the problems that he needs to solve (the problems you identified in the Introduction)
Mechanics
11. Check your report for typos, grammar mistakes, and styling? Did you paginate your report?
12. Did you cite relevant course materials in APA style and present references on a separate page at the end of the report?
Attachment:- Case Study – Preventing Child Abuse.rar