JUDICIAL COUNCILS AND POLICY PLANNING: CONTINUOUS STUDY AND DISCONTINUOUS INSTITUTIONS

definitions of planning are little help for our purposes. Suffice it to say that planning's components include forecasts of future events, setting organizational goals and objectives, determining strategies to meet the goals and objectives, and subjecting the consequences to constant evaluation. Because members of any organization have individual goals and work patterns that new objectives may threaten, effective planning requires the ability to facilitate adoption of, and adaptation to, changes. The court planning process can be broken down into two phases: Phase One-Judicial Administrative Policy-Making A. Policy planning B. Actual policy decisions Phase Two-Policy Implementation and Management A. Establishment of organizational structures B. Operation of organizational structures Phase One and Phase Two activities are presumably performed to help the courts themselves meet their ultimate objectives of conflict resolution. The various relationships involved in this process are portrayed in Figure 1. 5 Massachusetts General Laws, ch. 221, 34A. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.208 on Wed, 28 Sep 2016 04:23:09 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Judicial Councils/123