ADMS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Public Safety Canada
2 May 2018
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ADMS 2400 Tutorial 13 Notes – How can prison inmates be encouraged to learn new skills
and influence their community in positive ways?
Introduction
• Studies have shown that teams with a collective orientation to learning about and
mastering tasks are better able to adapt to changing environments.
• This research suggests that it may be necessary to consider not only individual
motivation but also group motivation when planning to implement changes.
• Explicit and implicit coercion.
• Coercion is the application of direct threats or force upon the resisters.
• If management really is determined to close a manufacturing plant whose employees do
not accept a pay cut, the company is using coercion.
• Other examples are threats of transfer, loss of promotions, negative performance
evaluations, and a poor letter of recommendation.
• The advantages and drawbacks of coercion are approximately the same as those for
manipulation and co-optation.
• As you read OB in the Workplace, consider which of the above steps staff at Rockwood
Institution used to help inmates introduce changes into their lives.
• Recidivism rates among released offenders are higher when those offenders do’t
perceive any other lifestyle options that would enable them to effectively support
themselves and their loved ones.
• At Rockwood Institution in Manitoba, Assistant Warden Shannon Plowman has found an
effective formula to change recidivism rates by partnering with Linda Peters, the vice
president of Program Delivery for Habitat for Humanity.
• Their program, which is financially supported by Public Safety Canada and Human
Resources and Skills Development Canada, gives minimum-security inmates with poor
job prospects the opportunity to learn marketable construction skills in a safe and
supportive environment.
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