Criminal justice organizations must harness the benefits of working together or alone while safeguarding against disadvantages. Individual accountability, mob mentality, and dynamic teamwork all represent different aspects of the continuum between individual and group processes and behaviors.

Training officers communicate with co-workers as well as leaders to train people in organizational behavior. As a training officer, you will periodically perform SWOT analyses and report your findings to leaders to make decisions. 

Assessment Deliverable

Using a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) framework, conduct a SWOT analysis and write a 525- to 700-word summary of your results as if you were the training officer for an agency where you need to communicate your ideas with executive leaders. The leadership team at the agency is planning to meet to discuss the efficacy of its organizational behavior before they make decisions about changes. As a training officer, you have been asked to contribute information on individual and group behaviors within the agency for them to consider at the meeting. 

Select a specific type of criminal justice agency (local, state, or federal), and research effective team dynamics and strategies for this type of agency. 

Part 1: SWOT Analysis

Complete the SWOT Analysis Template for individual and group behaviors for the type of agency/work setting you selected. This SWOT Analysis Template should be completed and turned in as Part 1, not combined with Part 2 below.

CJA356WK3SWOTAnalysisTemplate.docx

Part 2: Executive Summary

Refer to your completed SWOT analysis to support ethical decision-making. Your summary should include the following information with supportive evidence from your research and SWOT analysis:

• Identify key findings from your SWOT analyses of individual and group behaviors in the workplace. 
• Explain the impact of individual and group behaviors in the criminal justice organization setting that you selected.  
• Describe strategies to support individual and group ethical decision-making. Explain how to leverage individual and group behaviors into effective team strategies. 

Part 2 should be turned in as an Executive Summary, addressing the above bullets, and NOT combined with Part 1, the SWOT Analysis Template.

Cite at least 2 peer reviewed sources according to APA guidelines.

Submit your SWOT analysis and executive summary for your assessment.