Upon successful completion of the third level, participants may be eligible to obtain the Associate Public Manager designation. A recent project analyzed security procedures in a prison. Weaknesses were diagnosed through interviews with security staff. They describe in detail the three most-pressing ethical issues, and how they might be overcome. For example, staff may believe they are unethical because they promise more than they can deliver, and mislead the public.
Gaines asks by way of illustration.
Some of the success of the CPM program is attributed in large part to its special relationship between the Georgia Department of Corrections and the CPM program staff. Special basic courses are tailored for and offered exclusively to corrections officials. We can focus discussions that relate to corrections only. This specificity allows employees to better understand what roles their offices fill in relation to the department as a whole. It gets us all lined up with the policies and the way they want things done.