CJ 510 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
You will select one of the following case studies to analyze for your final project. To access the case studies, refer to the Harvard Business Review Coursepack link located in the syllabus:
The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Introduction A. Describe the organization based on the information provided in the chosen scenario and explain the communal problem that they are trying to address. B. Describe budgetary constraints and other potential obstacles that might impact the organization in addressing the problem from the agency and community standpoint. C. Analyze and describe the current research in the field that would help leadership ethically address the issue and base their decisions on best practices of the field.
II. Leadership Analysis A. Analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for how they did or did not facilitate and motivate employees in addressing the problem. Be sure to provide examples from the scenario to support your response. What instances in the chosen scenario exemplify the approach of leadership in encouraging and interacting with employees? B. Analyze the actions of leadership in the chosen scenario for communication issues that might arise and how these issues might impede addressing the problem. Be sure to provide examples from the scenario to support your response. What communication issues might leadership face when addressing this problem? What are the implications or consequences of these issues? C. Determine whether the supervisors in the chosen scenario have functioned as effective leaders. Be sure to justify your response and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.
III. Analysis of Ethics A. Determine the ethicality of leadership’s decision making during their attempts to address the problem. Be sure to justify your response and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.
B. Evaluate the transparency of the organization in regard to public communications. Be sure to justify your response. For example, are systems in place to communicate with the public? Has the organization been readily available and willing to provide the community with information regarding the problem? C. Evaluate how leadership of the organization considered the ethical concerns of the community in addressing the problem. Be sure to justify your response. For example, how were the concerns of internal and external stakeholders considered? D. Determine how the ethical decisions of leadership may impact the performance of employees in addressing the problem. How might these decisions improve employees’ ability to address the problem? How might they hinder their ability to address the problem? E. Determine how the ethical decisions of leadership may impact the culture of the organization. For example, what if employees do not agree with the decisions? F. Explain the overall implications of the ethical decision-making of leadership and how that affects the organization and the community. Be sure to justify your response, and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review.
IV. Recommendations A. Recommend an appropriate and effective leadership style that superiors at the organization could employ to address the problem and best fit the organization based on your previous analysis. Be sure to justify your response. B. Make recommendations to leadership for resolving the situation that balance the needs of the community, effectively addressing the problem, and what is ethically appropriate. How should leadership balance these three important elements in addressing the problem? C. Recommend strategies or actions that leadership could take to improve community relations and foster growth and trust between the community and the organization in response to the problem from the chosen scenario. Be sure to justify your response and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review. D. Recommend strategies or actions that leadership could take to maintain and improve the culture of the organization in response to the ethical decisions of leadership regarding the problem from the chosen scenario. Be sure to justify your response and support your response with appropriate research from the field gathered in your previous review. E. Make recommendations for the organization on how they could account for obstacles that might impede the organization in addressing the problem and implementing your recommendations. F. Explain how the organization could implement and uphold your recommendations. For example, should they enact new policies? Training? G. Explain how the organization would consider any budgetary constraints they might face both in addressing the problem and implementing any of your recommendations.
Guidelines for Submission: Your problem analysis should be 6–8 pages in 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, following appropriate APA formatting.
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The Flawed Emergency Response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Introduction
Description of the organization
The Los Angeles Police Department had been one of the best performing organizations in the United States of America. The department had been operating under sound management policies because the municipal council had considered them an independent entity capable of making decisions. However, the Los Angeles Police Department did not run without criticism for racism and corruption cases.
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