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Mapping Police Organizational Change: From a Mechanistic Toward an Organic Model
Author(s) -
KUYKENDALL JACK,
ROBERG ROY R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1982.tb00459.x
Subject(s) - typology , organizational change , planned change , intervention (counseling) , process (computing) , psychology , sociology , political science , process management , public relations , social psychology , business , computer science , psychiatry , operating system , anthropology
Community police organizations have been the focus of substantial research since the 1960s. Recommendations from this research have frequently suggested some degree of reform. This reform effort has been directed in part at the oragnizational design of police departments, emphasizing movement away from a mechanistic to more of an organic approach. This article describes mechanistic and organic model constructs and relates them to both continuum and matrix change perspectives and a change problem‐intervention strategy typology. The matrix and typology are used to “map” the change process associated with team policing, which is one example of attempts to make police organizations more organic.