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Improving Internal Communication in an Asia-Pacific International School
Get PDFThis organizational improvement plan presents a continuous organizational change approach that addresses communication issues between leadership and two culturally distinct departments, the Anglo Western and European, in an established Asia-Pacific international school. Communication is valued in the school’s strategic vision of raising the profile of its European culture. However, communication from leadership to Anglo Western teachers concerning how to support the European department remains an area of inaction throughout the organization. The organizational improvement plan explores internal communication between leadership and teachers by drawing on the theoretical concepts of organizational learning theory and transformational leadership to facilitate change and address issues of equity and marginalization of the European department. The change plan is situated in social constructivist theory using a conceptual framework based on social interactions at the individual, group, and community levels to explore organizational challenges. The plan addresses how to close gaps in communication between leadership and Anglo Western teachers, as well as reduce negative impacts on the school’s European language and culture through the inclusion of two ethical paradigms. An iterative plan-do-study-act cycle is integrated for monitoring and evaluation of the plan, and data is presented in compliance with a regional data protection ordinance. It is suggested that a cohesive information management system be leveraged to institutionalize transparent internal communication and support the school’s strategic vision. The plan exemplifies how applied theory may improve organizational communication and how this outcome can reduce marginalization of a department to result in far reaching beneficial consequences for the school under study.
Keywords: culture, data protection ordinance, equity, internal communication, international school, organizational change, social constructivist theory, transformational leadershi
Increasing Support for Evidence-Based Policing: A Complexity Theory Perspective on Organizational Change
Get PDFConfidence in Canadian policing is at a critical juncture as demonstrated by public calls for increased oversight and accountability, social movements demanding police reform, political considerations to defund the police, and citizen dissatisfaction with outdated and ineffective policing strategies. This Organizational Improvement Plan focuses on a specific problem of practice that is currently being faced by many Canadian police agencies: a lack of evidence-based policing practices with specific focus on the Bluetown Police Department. Moreover, the problem of practice has led to an overreliance on reactive policing interventions that have prevented the Bluetown Police Department from achieving prescribed internal performance measures or significantly improve Bluetown’s Crime Severity Index score in more than a decade. These reactive interventions comprise the standard model of policing and involve three key activities: rapid response to calls, random patrols to deter crime, and reactive investigations. Over the past fifty years criminal justice scholars have been highly critical of this model as a stand-alone framework for reducing or preventing crime. In fact, the standard model has been described as a one-size-fits-all approach that applies generic crime reduction strategies across a community regardless of the degree of crime complexity. The current landscape of policing has become increasingly complex due to the economic and social factors impacting communities, advances in technological crimes, terrorism, organized crime, community expectations, political agendas, and most recently policing in a pandemic. These complex problems require evidence-based interventions that evaluate police policies and practices, integrate police experience, and use data and science to determine the effectiveness of crime reductions strategies
Grace Anglican Church Brantford 1.3
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Grace Anglican Church Brantford 1.9
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Holy Trinity AC, Brantford 1.5
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