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As many of you noted in the first assignments, moving from a Bureaucratic Organizational model to a Learning Organizational model necessitates changes in structure, roles, systems, culture and collaboration. The first step in changing structure involves moving from a vertical, hierarchical structure to one that this flattened, more horizontal and empowering. This transformation is not without its challenges. Read the article Avoiding The Perverted Inverted Pyramid found in Assigned Reading folder in Files and make a response to each point of the following questions, citing the article and at least two additional resources: 

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1. What you view as the importance and benefits of flattening the organizational structure of criminal justice agencies and empowering employees?

2. How does it enhances their ability to achieve contemporary objectives of becoming a learning organization that is more adaptive to meeting challenges and resolving conflict.  

3. Describe specifically, what core organizational functions (e.g. recruitment, hiring, training, supervision, and performance appraisal), goals & objectives and the distribution of power will be impacted?

4. List and discuss the potential down-side to moving from a bureaucratic control structure to empowerment and sharing power in an organizational setting.