Components to Include
Your deliverable for Week 1 constitutes a case overview and an initial analysis of specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
Tasks:
Read the CASE of Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy. (Pg 2)
Week 1: LIS – Initial Assessment
• Summarize the Prison X scenario including a statement of purpose for the intervention and its expected outcome.
• Evaluate the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
Summarize the Case Scenario (See Pg 2)
• Provide a background of the purpose for intervention.
• Summarize the key facts of the case.
Conduct a Needs Analysis
• Analyze the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
• Generally, evaluation of topics and sources should include four or five resources and one or two pages of analysis.
Submission Details:
• Cite any sources you use in APA format on a separate page.
• Submit your plan in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.
Important hint: You might find it helpful to begin each section of the paper by discussing the key themes and cues you observe. Then, do research on those key themes to both broaden and deepen your evaluation of the case and your understanding of the important issues.
In the final product, about half your written evaluation of each topic should be research. About half should be application to the case study.
Recommendation for the level one headings for the body of your paper (in addition to your introduction and conclusion):
Case Summary
Critical Issues, Needs, and Challenges
Case of Prison X
Leadership Intervention Strategy
You are an organizational and leadership consultant called in to develop a leadership intervention strategy (LIS) for the state’s largest prison. You learn from several members of the prison management team that they and 30 other management-level staff are actively seeking employment elsewhere. Mass resignations appear imminent. These staff members feel that they are undercompensated, overworked, unfulfilled, and underappreciated. The group consistently complains about the leadership style of the prison warden, John Trevor. He is described as distant, cold, uninvolved, and apathetic. When you meet with John Trevor personally, you are surprised to find a pleasant, unassuming gentleman who is shocked to learn of his team’s displeasure. John feels that his management team is an exemplary group of caring professionals, and he is deeply disquieted about the possibility of these individuals leaving their jobs. John expresses grave concern about the safety and security of the prison, other employees, and inmates should there be a mass exodus of the management team. He is now looking up to you to assess the situation and develop strategies to mitigate these issues.
Over the next few weeks, you will explore the challenges and opportunities of this situation. Clearly, significant gaps exist between the prison warden and his management team. These gaps could conceivably lead to safety, cost, and operations issues. Consider the ramifications of a prison lacking a committed and cohesive management team. As part of a sixmonth LIS, you will develop questions, analyses, solutions, interventions, and strategies to improve the organization’s leadership, employee attitudes, perceptions, communication, and culture.
Sample Solution
