Assignment 5: Senior Seminar Project
Due Week 10 and worth 200 points
In Week 1, you chose a topic area and problem or challenge within that area. Throughout this course, you have researched the dynamics of the problem. The final piece of your project is to develop a viable solution that considers resources, policy, stakeholders, organizational readiness, administrative structures and other internal and external factors, as applicable. Using the papers you have written throughout this course, consolidate your findings into a succinct project.
Write a ten (10) page paper that as a minimum, your project should include:
Identify the topical area (e.g., local police department, community jail, border patrol)
Define a problem or challenge within your topical area that you understand in some depth or have an interest in (examples include high crime rate, poor morale, high levels of violence or recidivism, high number of civilian complaints of harassment, inadequate equipment). Outline the context of the problem or challenge, including the history and any policy decisions that have contributed to the situation.
Describe how internal or external stakeholders have influenced the situation in a positive or negative way. How will you consider stakeholders in your solution to the problem? How will you motivate individuals to buy into your solution?
Discuss how technologies or information systems have contributed to the problem and how you will propose technology be implemented into the solution.
Discuss what data you have collected or researched to indicate there is a problem. Include at least two sources of data and how each is relevant to the problem.
Develop an effective and efficient solution(s) and a course of action (i.e., plan) that addresses the problem or challenge.
Explain what methods of assessment you will employ to measure the effectiveness of your solutions.
Develop a 10-15 slide PowerPoint Presentation that summarizes the seven items above.
Use at least 8 quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the students name, the professors name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Assess a policy or problem and develop solutions based on available resources, taking into account the political and global implications.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal justice.
Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice using proper writing mechanics.
Click here to view the assignment rubric.
Week 1, you chose the below:
Management and Leadership and Practical Reflection Please respond to the following:
Stojkovic, our textbook author, identifies both management and leadership as process. For this discussion, research and report on the differences between management and leadership. How do these differences influence professionals in criminal justice organizations?
Determine what you want to do with your degree, specifically: where you want to work; what you want to do, and what motivated you to choose that job and place to work?
According to McCaffery (2018), Leadership refers to getting people to understand and believe in your vision and accept to work with you in order to accomplish your own goals management, on the other hand, refers to the act or the process of administering and overseeing that the daily activities are happening as they are expected to. When it comes to leadership, a leader does not have to be in a position of authority but he/she is being followed by the people because of their character behavior and personality Northouse (2018). A manager, on the other hand, is in place of authority and is charged with the mandate of planning, controlling, leading and organizing. A leader has influence over people while a manager has power over them.
Management and leadership process is very important in any organization and criminal justice systems Bolden (2016). A good example of the influence of the difference between leadership and management is in the criminal justice when a judge is a leader they are likely to give a ruling of a case based on honesty and the applicable law and people can easily believe in that particular judge. In an organization, leaders are important as they help in influencing people to achieve the desired goals of the organization and they are also able to support the visions of the organizations by helping others believe in the same visions. On the other hand, managers in an organization are important as they make sure that the activities are carried out in the right way and that the desired results have been achieved.
The degree that is doing is very important to me as it will enable me to work in Nokia Company as a marketing person who will help in gaining of a larger market share for the company and also rebranding in order to help the company in maintaining their current market share. My motivation for choosing the job is because I like doing value addition to products and services and improving the profit margins. Nokia company is one of the largest companies in the world and hence giving exposure and a wider scope of work.
References
Bolden, R. (2016). Leadership, management, and organizational development. In Gower handbook of leadership and management development (pp. 143-158). Routledge.
McCaffery, P. (2018). The higher education managers handbook: effective leadership and management in universities and colleges. Routledge.
Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.
I have attached all papers you have done for this class the rubric for this paper.
