Leadership and Social Change
Leadership and Social/Professional Roles
Submitted to: Professor Philip Terry - Smith Submitted by: Janelle Wright HUS 713-24 Date Due: October 23, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to give an understanding to the organization that I work for which is, Community Education Centers’ as a system and how the mission statement plays out as a guide. Hoffman Hall is one of the many entities to the overall system of Community Education Centers’. According to Anderson, Carter, and Lowe (1999), a system is defined as an organized whole made of components that interact in a way distinct from their interaction with other entities, and that endures over some period of time. I will discuss my organization’s mission statement and how it is supposed to work as a focal system for sentenced inmates to reduce recidivism. The focal system refers to the system that is the object of attention at a particular moment. It must be specified in order to be consistent with the demand that the perspective of the viewer should be stated (Anderson, Carter, and Lowe, 1999, p. 290)
Community Education Centers’ (CEC) is a large holon with 19 facilities designed to educate the inmate population in a therapeutic approach in order to reduce recidivism. According to Anderson, Carter, and Lowe (1999), a holon denotes that is both part of a larger suprasystem and is itself a suprasystem to other systems. As stated in CEC’s mission statement, the focus is to provide a drug-free, healthy, and educational environment, therefore, allowing the participants to be discharged with the knowledge and skills necessary to live productive lives upon reintegration into the community. Hoffman Hall is one of CEC’s many sub-systems that is supposed to support this statement in order to add to increased recidivism of the inmate population. While many employees work hard to maintain that focus, there is still the error of inconsistency with the
Submitted to: Professor Philip Terry - Smith Submitted by: Janelle Wright HUS 713-24 Date Due: October 23, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to give an understanding to the organization that I work for which is, Community Education Centers’ as a system and how the mission statement plays out as a guide. Hoffman Hall is one of the many entities to the overall system of Community Education Centers’. According to Anderson, Carter, and Lowe (1999), a system is defined as an organized whole made of components that interact in a way distinct from their interaction with other entities, and that endures over some period of time. I will discuss my organization’s mission statement and how it is supposed to work as a focal system for sentenced inmates to reduce recidivism. The focal system refers to the system that is the object of attention at a particular moment. It must be specified in order to be consistent with the demand that the perspective of the viewer should be stated (Anderson, Carter, and Lowe, 1999, p. 290)
Community Education Centers’ (CEC) is a large holon with 19 facilities designed to educate the inmate population in a therapeutic approach in order to reduce recidivism. According to Anderson, Carter, and Lowe (1999), a holon denotes that is both part of a larger suprasystem and is itself a suprasystem to other systems. As stated in CEC’s mission statement, the focus is to provide a drug-free, healthy, and educational environment, therefore, allowing the participants to be discharged with the knowledge and skills necessary to live productive lives upon reintegration into the community. Hoffman Hall is one of CEC’s many sub-systems that is supposed to support this statement in order to add to increased recidivism of the inmate population. While many employees work hard to maintain that focus, there is still the error of inconsistency with the
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