Criminal management Flashcards
What is Criminal Justice Management?
Criminal justice is a complex social institution which regulates potential alleged and actual criminal activity within limits designed to protect people from wrongful treatments and wrongful activities.
Managers are working in an organisation and taking decisions in a given set of cultural values and institutions
What is PEST?
Managers influence and are being influenced by the environment.
Envirmonment = PEST Political Economical Social Technological
Explain public administration and public management
PA and PM are a interdisciplinairy field of study that focusses on the government of governance.
It can’t be disconnected by the society and isn’t generic management
What’s the difference between PA and PM?
Public Administration
- old fashioned, traditional, introverted
- static hierarchies and procedures
- focus on following the rules, compliance and accountability
- focus on machinery of the government
Public Management
- modern, outward-looking
- dynamic leadership and innovation
- focus on managing resources, efficiency and performance
- focus on multistakeholder leadership
What’s the definition of an organization?
A consciously coordinated social entity with relatively clear boundaries that seeks to accomplish common objectives
- social entitiy
- goal oriented
- consciously coordinated
- identifiable boundaries
What’s the objective of an org.?
To create value and to distribute the created value to the customers and stakeholders
What are the different types of org.?
- Pure public/social = focus on solving societal problems in order to create and distribute societal value
- Social economic = focus on social and economic objectives but the creation and distribution of societal value is more dominant
- Economic social = creation and distribution of economic value is dominant
- Companies = create and distribute economic value
What’s the difference between a formal structure and an informal structure?
Formal structure
- developed by top management or defined by mandate
- presented through an organization chart
- relatively static
Informal structure
- spontaneous social relationships based on friendship, knowledge and joint breaks
- sometimes stronger than formal structure
- temporary, dynamic, self-organizing
- unofficial
Types of horizontal structures
= grouping the tasks logically into divisions, departments, sections
- Functional classification (based on nature of tasks)
- Product layout (based on product or service lines)
- Geographic classification (based on specific area)
- Target group classification (based on needs or wants of the customers)
- Channel classification (based on distribution channel)
Dominant organizational structures
- Simple structure
- Functional structure (vertical)
- Divisional structure (horizontal)
- Matrix structure (hor and vert)
- Horizontal structure (bringing distance between top and bottom)
Name the 6 basic parts of the org.
- Strategic apex
- Middle line
- Operating core
- Techno structure
- Support staff
- Ideology
Name the coordination mechanisms
- Mutual adjustment
- Direct supervision
- Standardization
- work progress
- work output
- work skills
Name the 10 design parameters
- Job specialization
- Formalization of behaviour
- Training
- Indoctrination
- Grouping of units
- Size of units
- Planning and control system
- Correction techniques
- Vertical decentralization
- Horizontal decentralization
Name the 4 contingency factors
- Age and size
- Technical systems
- Environment
- Power
Name the 7 configuration types
- Entrepreneurial
- Machine
- Diversified
- Professional
- Innovative of Adhocracy
- Missionary
- Political
