Introduction
The present document provides a brief overview of the culture of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (FDJJ) and its characteristics. Further, it explains the organization’s culture and learning abilities to assess its change initiatives.
Company Review
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is a juvenile detention center for rehabilitation of individuals involved in delinquency cases. Florida Department of Juvenile Justice operates in Florida to adopt and provide strategic and social services with an objective of the wellbeing of society (Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 2010). The organization provides different social services to children and their families traced in the dependency actions in child abuse cases to delinquency (Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 2010).
Characteristics
The characteristics of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice depict positive learning abilities as it is constantly engaged for continued evaluation of implementation to achieve goals (Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 2010). Despite the strategic missions and objectives organization underlay, the organization brings constant amendments and changes in its goals. Also, the strategic plans are revised periodically that depicts that Florida Department of Juvenile Justice seeks to keep the pace with the change and priorities of juvenile justice in Florida (Reiss, 2012). Reiss (2012) stated that organizations that acknowledge its stakeholder’s needs and revises its goals to cater its stakeholders that promote change (Reiss, 2012).
Correspondingly, it can be noted from Florida's Juvenile Justice System bring changes in the design to achieve needs. It develops recommendations for the improvement of Florida’s juvenile justice system is developed by the input from juvenile justice stakeholders and citizens (Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 2010). It shows that the organization acknowledges the needs of its stakeholders and brings adequate changes to cater the needs of the society (Ainscough, Neailey, & Tennant, 2009).
Culture
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice’s leadership reflects that the organizational culture, which is constantly engaged to achieve better results at lower cost. The leadership is based on the basis to bring improvement exploring opportunities that would fit needs and betterment of the society. The report of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (2010) highlights “Florida Department of Juvenile Justice’s leadership can foster an organizational culture of excellence where every employee is constantly on the lookout for ways to do things better and at potentially lower costs” (Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, 2010, p. 46). From this, it can be noted that the organization is looking for innovative ways that can result in the betterment of the activities in effective and efficient manner. The study of Ainscough, Neailey, & Tennant (2009) supports, “a holistic approach to change management encourages the redesign and adaptation” (Ainscough, Neailey, & Tennant, 2009).
Similarly, it is evident from the current activities and operations of Florida Department of Juvenile Justice that it encourages to redesign and adapt new changes in its operations by revising its strategies, goals, and objectives. The opportunities for improvement and innovation are utmost important for Florida Department of Juvenile Justice that it aims to optimize utilization of its resources. Moreover, extensive researches by researchers, experts, and government personnel are constantly done within the organization to redesign and effective framework (Gill, 2002). Langley, Smallman, Tsoukas, & VandeVen (2013) outline that the organization that adopts change in its leadership cast positive impact on the understanding of employees to draw attention of the critical success factor (Langley, Smallman, Tsoukas, & VandeVen, 2013).
References
Ainscough, M., Neailey, K., & Tennant, C. (2009). A self-assessment tool for implementing concurrent engineering through change management. International Journal of Project Management, 21(6), 425-431.
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. (2010). Annual Report: Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. Florida: Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.
Gill, R. (2002). Change management--or change leadership? Journal of Change Management , 3(4), 307-318.
Langley, A., Smallman, C., Tsoukas, H., & VandeVen, A. H. (2013). Process studies of change in organization and management: Unveiling temporality, activity, and flow. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), 1-13.
Reiss, M. (2012). Change Management. Norderstedt: Books on Demand.
