PSAD 302 UMGC Application of Organizational Principles in Public Safety ORGs Discussion – Description
For your discussion, consider either Pinsky’s discussion of a department’s adoption Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management or the description of the 6 organizational principles by Dias and Vaughn. Apply at least two of the principles to what you’ve experienced in a public safety organization or what you’ve read about a public safety organization. The readings are applicable to all disciplines and, therefore, you shouldn’t need to choose the article to match the discipline.
Consider choosing one of the more obscure principles to make connections that may foster more discussion.
You may choose to discuss how application of the principle is lacking and how applying the principle would lead to better outcomes.
You may also choose to explain how the principle is applied appropriately and discuss the positive outcomes related to that.
Finally, you may argue that the principle was rejected, either without ill effects or with positive outcomes.
Your responses can add to your classmates’ position or respectfully challenge it. I would suggest that you be discreet and not mention an agency with which you’ve had personal dealings by name or describe it sufficiently that it can be identified.
Readings:
Management Vs. Leadership Firefighter Nation Content Directors
This short article by Bradley M. Pinsky, fire chief and attorney, advocates for scientific management principles within Emergency Services. Because fire, EMS, dispatch, and police have similar structures, much if not all of the article is applicable universally to public safety administrators.
Bureaucracy, managerial disorganization, and administrative breakdown in criminal justice agencies
This is a twelve-page 2006 article by Clarissa Freitas Dias of Georgia State University and Michael Vaughn of Sam Houston State University. In their article, the two discuss broadly universal principles of management. The authors then discuss more specifically use examples from organizational failures in criminal justice organizations to illustrate what it looks like when managers fail to properly apply these organizational principles. Employees in every discipline of public safety will recognize traits of their organization discussed in this article.
The DISCIPLINES we have been using so for have been Police, Firefighters, and EMS. I am currently working towards police officer.
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