CJS 105 Lecture 30: CJS 105 Lecture 30
6 Oct 2020
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Traditional organizational theory organizations have closed systems and are. Open-system theory organizations are flexible, adaptive, and organic. Traditional organizational theory applies to most police agencies: Planning is centralized and innovations come from the top-down. The community is outside the system and community-relations is often. Open system organizations treated as an images building . More forward-thinking agencies are adopting open systems approaches: Consultations between officers and supervisors for setting community objectives. Officers tend to stay in one beat rather than rotate in order to create long- term relationships. Officers are encouraged to make suggestions to solve problems. Community relations are seen as integral to the patrol functions. Neighborhood problems solved by officer in those beats rather than by chief or command staff in the central headquarters. While many organizations continue to prefer traditional approach, it had many downslides we"ve outlined before: Lack of ability to problem-solve, overly rigid, etc. But, the flexible, open-systems approach also had downsides:
