12 Jul What is a leadership intervention? The term ‘intervention’

Case of Prison X

Leadership Intervention Strategy

You are an organizational and leadership consultant called in to develop a leadership

intervention strategy (LIS) for the state’s largest prison. You learn from several members of the

prison management team that they and 30 other management-level staff are actively seeking

employment elsewhere. Mass resignations appear imminent. These staff members feel that

they are undercompensated, overworked, unfulfilled, and underappreciated. The group

consistently complains about the leadership style of the prison warden, John Trevor. He is

described as distant, cold, uninvolved, and apathetic. When you meet with John Trevor

personally, you are surprised to find a pleasant, unassuming gentleman who is shocked to learn

of his team’s displeasure. John feels that his management team is an exemplary group of caring

professionals, and he is deeply disquieted about the possibility of these individuals leaving their

jobs. John expresses grave concern about the safety and security of the prison, other employees,

and inmates should there be a mass exodus of the management team. He is now looking up to

you to assess the situation and develop strategies to mitigate these issues.

Over the next few weeks, you will explore the challenges and opportunities of this

situation. Clearly, significant gaps exist between the prison warden and his management team.

These gaps could conceivably lead to safety, cost, and operations issues. Consider the

ramifications of a prison lacking a committed and cohesive management team. As part of a six-

month LIS, you will develop questions, analyses, solutions, interventions, and strategies to

improve the organization’s leadership, employee attitudes, perceptions, communication, and

culture.

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Course Project: Case Study – Initial Assessment

What is a leadership intervention?

The term "intervention" refers to a set of sequenced, planned actions or events intended to help an organization increase its effectiveness. Interventions are often facilitated by outside organizational development consultants or employees within the organization who have the competencies associated with a trusted change agent. In this case, you are going to take the role of an outside consultant.

Interventions can be done at the individual level, team level, and organizational level. What is important to keep in mind is the objective of all interventions is to help improve the effectiveness of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.

An intervention strategy can be relatively simple in terms of one initiative to address a problem. For example, a company develops a safety committee after this was identified as an operating deficiency. However, most intervention strategies are more complex and have more than one initiative or sub-strategies which make up one large strategy. The complex approach is what you will do for your Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy for this course.

To assist you in planning for the final project, the following table provides a high-level overview of the final project deliverables during the course.

Week #	Leadership Intervention Strategy – Prison X
1	LIS – Initial Assessment · Summarize the  Prison X scenario including a statement of purpose for the intervention and its expected outcome. · Evaluate the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.

Components to Include in the Project

Tasks: Read the case of  Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy.

Summarize the Case Scenario

· Provide a background of the purpose for intervention.

· Summarize the key facts of the case.

Conduct a Needs Analysis

· Analyze the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.

· Generally, evaluation of topics and sources should include four or five resources and one or two pages of analysis.

Submission Details:

· Cite any sources you use in APA format on a separate page.

· Submit your plan in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.

· Due by 7/14/24

· ******No plagiarism will be tolerated. No AI support, must be 0% AI help. Must be in APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years and references.******  

Important hint: You might find it helpful to begin each section of the paper by discussing the key themes and cues you observe. Then, do research on those key themes to both broaden and deepen your evaluation of the case and your understanding of the important issues. In the final product, about half your written evaluation of each topic should be research. About half should be application to the case study.

Recommendation for the level one headings for the body of your paper (in addition to your introduction and conclusion):

Case Summary

Critical Issues, Needs, and Challenges