In order to sustain organizational change, employees must possess necessary knowledge and skills, and the organizational climate must be healthy and conducive to growth and change. To determine the strengths and developmental needs of organizations engaged in a change process, CJI is able to offer a suite of organizational assessment tools. Our team can customize a package of tools based on your needs, administer the surveys, provide the results, and work with you to translate the results into an organizational development plan.
If you would like more information on CJI's Assessment offerings, please contact Meghan Guevara at mguevara[@]crjustice.org.
Click on Assessment titles to read a description of each offering:
Organizational Assessments
- Evidence-Based Practices Skill Assessment (EBPSA)
This EBP assessment addresses the knowledge and skill strengths and needs of an organization in regard to EBP. It is primarily useful to agencies that have begun training and implementation on evidence-based practices and wish to assess progress.
Read more about the EBPSA.
- Likert Organizational Climate Survey (LOCS)
The LOCS is an assessment of organizational climate as it relates to productivity, including communication, decision-making structures, staff motivation, communication, goals, and control. This brief survey provides a broad overview of organizational climate, including strengths and developmental needs. The survey measures staff perspectives of the current work environment compared to their ideal work environment.
- Texas Christian University CJ Survey of Organizational Functioning (TCU CJ SOF)
This survey was developed and published in 2002 as part of an organizational research program at the
Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University for evaluating staff perceptions of organizational structure, functioning, and performance. (Lehman, W.E.K., Greener, J.M., & Simpson, D.D. 2002). The survey and background materials are available through the
Institute of Behavioral Research, TCU and CJI is available to administer the survey and work with you to apply the results in your organization. The TCU CJ SOF includes six content areas with 27 scales within these areas. All scales were independently validated by the authors of the instrument, so analysis on each individual scale could be conducted and is meaningful. The major scale or content areas included on the survey are: Motivation for Change; Institutional Resources; Staff Attributes; Organizational Climate; Job Attitudes; and Workplace Practices.
- Case Management Assessment
This is an assessment of control or support orientation of employees. Respondents review a case vignette and are asked to rate their priorities in managing the case. It is primarily useful for organizations that have implemented evidence-based case planning and wish to assess alignment of organizational priorities and individual practice.
- Collaboration Survey
This is an assessment of the functionality of defined collaborative groups. It is useful if the jurisdiction has an active Criminal Justice Coordinating Council or other active collaborative group that is interested in improving its productivity.
- 360° Management and Leadership Assessment
A variety of assessments are available to provide individualized feedback to supervisors, mid-level managers, and executives.
Program Assessments
- Correctional Program Assessment Inventory-2000
The Correctional Program Assessment Inventory-2000 (CPAI-2000) is a tool to assess correctional intervention programs, and is used to ascertain how closely correctional programs adhere to known principles of effective intervention. The CPAI-2000 was created by Paul Gendreau, Ph.D. and Donald A. Andrews, Ph.D., to document the strengths and weaknesses of "real world" programs with the goal of making correctional systems more effective and accountable. CJI staff administer the CPAI-2000 on-site, conducting interviews, observations and document reviews over multiple days and provide concrete, useable feedback to correctional agencies to improve their practices.
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