7-2 Final Project Milestone Four: Recommendations

CJ 510 Milestone Four Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: The final project in this course will expose you to a problem situation and task you with how it should be solved. You will imagine you are employed at a criminal justice organization facing a communal problem. Your superior at the organization has asked you to review the problem situation and offer your recommendations. You will be given the chance to evaluate the situation and develop suggestions that will inform development of strategies to address the issue using appropriate ethical and transparent leadership and communication skills.

The main purpose of this fourth milestone of your project is to get you to work on the recommendations portion of your final project. You will use your previous analysis of the leadership and ethics and recommend strategies to help improve the organization’s use of ethical decision-making, the overall culture of the organization, and their relationship with the community. You will then identify obstacles that might occur when the plan is being implemented and strategies to help the organization implement and uphold your recommendations.

Prompt: Using your selected case study, complete the following critical elements for the assignment:

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.

Refer to the Criminal Justice Library Tips for support in finding and citing outside resources.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your problem analysis should be 2–3 pages in 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, following appropriate APA formatting.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Recommendations: Leadership Style

Recommends 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, justifying response and supporting response with appropriate research from the field

Recommends 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, justifying response but recommendation is cursory, illogical, or there are gaps in the justification, or supporting research is inappropriate

Does not 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

15

Recommendations: Balance

Makes recommendations to leadership for resolving the situation that balance the needs of the community, effectively addressing the problem, and what is ethically appropriate

Makes recommendations to leadership for resolving the situation that balance the needs of the community, effectively addressing the problem, and what is ethically appropriate, but recommendations are cursory or illogical

Does not make recommendations to leadership for resolving the situation that balance the needs of the community, effectively addressing the problem, and what is ethically appropriate

15

Recommendations: Foster Growth and

Trust

Recommends 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, justifying response and supporting response with appropriate research from the field

Recommends 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, justifying response, but recommendations are cursory, illogical, or there are gaps in the justification, or supporting research is inappropriate

Does not 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

15

Recommendations: Culture

Recommends 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, justifying response and supporting response with appropriate research from the field

Recommends 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, justifying response but recommendations are cursory, illogical, or there are gaps in the justification, or supporting research is inappropriate

Does not 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

15

Recommendations: Obstacles

Makes recommendations for the organization for how they could account for obstacles that might impede the organization in addressing the problem and implementing recommendations

Makes recommendations for the organization for how they could account for obstacles that might impede the organization in addressing the problem and implementing recommendations but recommendations are cursory or illogical

Does not make recommendations for the organization for how they could account for obstacles that might impede the organization in addressing the problem and implementing recommendations

10

Recommendations: Implement and

Uphold

Explains how the organization could implement and uphold recommendations

Explains how the organization could implement and uphold recommendations but explanation is cursory or illogical

Does not explain how the organization could implement and uphold recommendations

10

Recommendations: Budgetary Constraints

Explains how the organization would consider any budgetary constraints they might face both in addressing the problem and implementing any of recommendations

Explains how the organization would consider any budgetary constraints they might face both in addressing the problem and implementing any of recommendations but explanation is cursory or illogical

Does not explain how the organization would consider any budgetary constraints they might face both in addressing the problem and implementing any of recommendations

10

Articulation of Response

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%