Organizational Effectiveness

Organizational Effectiveness

Amanda Jones

CJA/474

Paul Johnson

August 25, 2016

Organizational Effectiveness

The term organizational effectiveness states the ability of an organization to meet goals and the efficiency in doing so. To put it in different terms, if organizations are producing effective results in a timely manner, they are considered to be effective. When an organization is in a position to deliver the desired results or effect with no waste. When in the case of a for profit organization, they often show that they demonstrate superior performance when in comparison to their business peers. Organizational effectiveness is in part the responsibility of all parties within the organization, in an effort to exceed their desired results. Organizational effectiveness is the organizations capacity to produce the desired results output of energy, time, money and material resources. Most desired results will vary from organization to organization. Some goals may consist of high profit goals and low turnover rate (Daft, 2012). When it comes to business, major effectiveness is measured by its net profitability versus its target profitability.

Just like with any other organization, criminal justice organization have to deal with issues in management and use various management styles that best suit their objectives and goals, but that also align with the adjudication of offenses, crime prevention and offender’s punishment. With the vast development of management styles over the years, they have become more applicable to the criminal justice organizations such as courts, corrections and law enforcement (Talbot, 2010). Some of the theories that pertain to the criminal justice organizational system are scientific management, human relations and systems management.

Frederick Taylor originally outlined the scientific management principle’s in the 1940’s. Sometimes coined a “Taylorism”, his theory put a direct emphasis on routine development, employee...