Results-Driven Management in Criminal Justice

Catalog description

This course is designed to call attention to six common benefits associated with reinventing government organizations in order to enhance effectiveness and efficiency: (1) moving beyond bureaucratic system maintenance constraints; (2) better alignment of results-oriented goals with daily operations; (3) collaboration across organizational boundaries; (4) opportunities to use performance information to improve policies, practices, and programs; (5) results-oriented basis for individual accountability and staff performance evaluations; and (6) continuity of program goals during leadership transitions that are politically driven and a fact of life in government operations. This course will focus primarily on the analysis and application of results-driven management practices in local, state, and federal criminal justice organizations; however, the substantive course content is generalizable to the full spectrum of government organizations charged with delivering publicly valued services.