Developing a Strategic Support System: Monitoring the Bureau's Performance via Trends in Key Indicators.

摘要

In October, of 1984, the executive staff reviewed a research proposal to assess prison social climates periodically via surveys of both objective institutional facts and subjective staff or inmate perceptions. The concept of social climates is concerned with the interactions between physical and social elements that constitute organizational environments. In this synopsis we will provide: (1) a brief history of the development of the climate instrument, (2) an overview of the potential uses of information about prison climates obtained periodically and some examples of the types of analytic insight which could be derived by adhering to a systematic method of obtaining and retaining data continuously through time, and (3) two alternative plans for initiating the flow of objective and subjective types of trend data.