Managing Criminal Justice Personnel –

cja473

(3 credits)

This course is a survey of important personnel issues inherent to organizations and, especially, to criminal justice organizations. Problems, procedures and solutions to common personnel issues will be explored.

This undergraduate-level course is 5 weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

Values
- Explain the nature and importance of human values in the workplace.
- Describe how people acquire and change values.
- Identify your core values.
- Explain what values do for and to us.
Motivation and Empowerment
- Define motivation and empowerment and understand the similarities and differences between the two.
- Apply theories of motivation to managing criminal justice personnel.
- Define the components of empowerment.
- Analyze the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization.
- Analyze the role of trust in personnel issues.
Organizational Effectiveness
- Define Organizational Effectiveness.
- Apply theories of Organizational Effectiveness to the management of criminal justice personnel.
- Review several methods for exerting control in an organizational setting.
- Explore the differences between bureaucratic and agile organizations.
- Identify the elements of managing by objective (MBO).
Occupational Socialization
- Define occupational socialization.
- Define organizational culture.
- Identify the socialization process - stages and models of influence.
- Discuss problems in the socialization process.
- Identify socialization issues in police and correctional agencies and in community expectations.
- Examine strategies for socialization.
Personnel Supervision and Evaluation
- Define models of employee supervision.
- Apply guidelines for supervision and evaluation to managing criminal justice personnel.
- Review types of problem employees.
- Consider various disciplinary actions.
- Differentiate between problem employees and problem situations.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Managing Criminal Justice Personnel –

cja473

Values

Motivation and Empowerment

Organizational Effectiveness

Occupational Socialization

Personnel Supervision and Evaluation

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