Organizational Behavior FBI

Organizational Behavior FBI

Organization of the FBI

The FBI is under the leadership of its CEO. It is surrounded by a support service to politics responsible for processing records relating to the strategic planning and monitoring, the management of resources and personnel, management of judicial information and international collaboration. It is further subdivided into 27 departments and devolved central 6-performing their missions through constructive interaction and teach (Fields & Wilke, 2003).

Harmonization between the levels

The harmonization between the two levels is optimized using a strategic planning process. This process provides managers with an overview on the use of means and goals. This process also ensures the formulation of realistic expectations regarding directions and avoids an overload of a priori structural demands do arise among the departments or services (central or devolved).This allows the practical implementation of the national security plan that reflects the policy of the federal authority for a period of 4 years.

In practice, this method of work ensures that the tasks related to the approach of the phenomena priority at central and decentralized, are conducted effectively and efficiently. Thus, the central departments are responsible, among other things, developing the image of the phenomenon nationwide and the development, coordination and support of policing aspects of the comprehensive and integrated approach.

Developed by the autonomy of the decentralized model, the manager must bring legal services to engage in "good phenomenon" through, in qualitative surveys into account local priorities, namely the priorities established by the Attorney King, and the division of labor with the local police (Theoharis & Athan, 2000).

Internal reports of work

If the relationship between the CEO and directors is hierarchical, the relationship between the directors of central and decentralized level is in principle complementary, lateral and college. Both levels must meet the ongoing challenge to support each other through the qualitative implementation of their tasks.

For some aspects, the directors have specific skills they are entitled to run freely (e.g. the implementation of the investigative capacity within the PJF in order to carry out the missions of the judicial authorities), but most of the time they need each other to carry out their own missions.

The Management of Criminal Investigations and Research

Criminal investigations and research are conducted by competent judicial authorities: the federal prosecution, the prosecutor and the judge. As their requisitions, also called "footnotes", magistrates direct the activities of investigators. The authority's executive director or a director cannot interfere in the ...