Results-Driven Management: Implementing Performance-Based Measures in Community Corrections

Ready to take control? Improve outcomes? Achieve the desired goals of your agency? This book will provide you with a model for the development and implementation of a strategy to help you assess what you do and how well you do it. Measuring performance will allow you as an agency administrator, supervisor or line officer, to achieve organizational growth as well as demonstrate the results you need to justify resources and establish your agency's credibility.

You will identify the following performance-based measures in this book:

• Provide tangible support for human and financial resource requests allowing community corrections to successfully compete for limited public funds.
  
• Help to put recidivism into perspective by measuring short-term and intermediate outcomes that provide a better assessment of the activities that define the profession (e.g., treatment and services, surveillance, enforcement), and more clearly depict what community corrections does and how well they do it.
  
• Provide information about which programmatic aspects lead to the ultimate goals of reduced recidivism and public safety.
  
• Enable agencies to practice "results-oriented management" by establishing benchmarks and standards, distinguishing success from failure, and providing a basis for organizational improvements.
  
• Provide structured organizational feedback and a continuous process for monitoring and evaluation.
  
• Empower community corrections agencies by equipping them with information and the capacity to demonstrate their value.

Published 1995, 170 pages

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