Week 3

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You will be completing a You Decide
assignment this week. Consult the You Decide tab under Week 3 for assignment
instructions. You will submit your work to the Week 3 You Decide Dropbox.

Scenario

Scenario Summary

The state legislature recently
approved a prison expansion bill that calls for increased staffing for all
levels of prison facilities within the state. The greatest allocation of
funding is to go toward hiring additional correctional officers for the maximum-security
prison where you are employed as a senior administrator. The promotional
process is nearly completed, and you have been handed assessments on the final
three candidates for the position. This was a difficult process, as there were
many eligible candidates who applied. Nonetheless, the committee responsible
for the preliminary interviews has narrowed the field and has now submitted its
recommendations.

Your Assignment

This promotional opportunity is
in response to a state funding decision to increase staffing by 15% at your
prison, a decision that mandates the hiring of 50 new correctional officers
within the next budget fiscal year. As an upper level administrator responsible
for the final decision on this promotional opportunity, you are tasked with the
responsibility of selecting one of three final candidates for the position of
first line supervisor. Under other circumstances, the decision to promote a
senior correctional officer to a position of first line supervisor would
require less consideration, because the new supervisor would be working with
veteran officers. However, under these circumstances, the newly appointed
supervisor will be as much a mentor as a supervisor to the newly hired
correctional officers, many of whom will have little or no experience working
with inmates in a maximum-security facility. What characteristics will you look
for in the candidate of your choice? And because the warden will review your
final decision, make sure to explain why each of the other two candidates was
not selected.

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Scenario

The state
legislature recently approved a prison expansion bill that calls for increased
staffing for all levels of prison facilities within the state. The greatest
allocation of funding is to focus on hiring additional correctional officers
for the maximum-security prison where you are employed as a senior
administrator. The promotional process is nearly completed and you have been
handed assessments on the final three candidates for the position. This was a
difficult process as there were many eligible candidates who applied.
Nonetheless, the committee responsible for the preliminary interviews has narrow
the field and has now submitted their recommendations.

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Role

As an
upper level administrator responsible for the final decision on a promotional
opportunity that is in response to a state funding decision to increase
staffing by 15% at your prison, a decision that mandates the hiring of 50 new
correctional officers within the next budget fiscal year, you are tasked with
the responsibility of selecting one of three final candidates for the position
of first line supervisor. Under other circumstances, the decision to promote a
senior correctional officer to a position of first line supervisor would
require less consideration as the new supervisor would be working with veteran
officers, however, under these circumstances the newly appointed supervisor
will be as much a mentor as a supervisor to the newly hired correctional
officers; many of whom will have little or no experience working with inmates
in a maximum security facility. What characteristics will you look for in the
candidate of your choice? And since the warden will review your final decision,
make sure to explain why each of the other two candidates was not selected.

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Players

Wyatt Smith

Applicant 1

Barbara Menendez

Applicant 2

Joe Tyson

Applicant 3

Deliverable

This
paper should range from 2 to 3 pages of text plus a title and reference page if
references are cited in the text of the paper. Please complete this assignment
and submit your paper to the Dropbox.

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