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Michael Childs
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2. Define what you believe leadership to be in any criminal justice organization. Explain how your definitions could best be applied to improve your own criminal justice organization or any others you have researched.
I believe that criminal justice leaders should set examples for all employees. Criminal justice leaders must be knowledgeable and understanding in a lot of different areas and situations of criminal justice. Leaders should be able to motivate employees, manage moral and understand their employees.
Criminal Justice leaders must be able to lead an organization and keep moral high. Leadership is there to let officers and other actors in criminal justice system know that they are heard and appreciated for doing their jobs. Leadership must know when motivation and moral is down in their departments. Though moral may not be down in the people in leadership, but it is their job to control different aspects and introduce new aspects of moral to the department.
I also believe that criminal justice leaders should be concerned with employees’ personal lives. That is how you understand your employees. In the criminal justice field so much stress goes into simply doing criminal justice jobs that sometimes it does effect a person’s personal life. Occupational stress is a true factor that leads me to say personal life should be looked at in the criminal justice field. Richardson states that “Employee stress has increasingly become a concern for many organizations”. (Pg. 71) Occupational stress is defined as things that are stressors at work. And as a criminal justice manager, that should be looked at for every employee. The reason why it is a manager’s job to look at an employee’s personal life is because sometimes when the employees personal is not so good, it effects the employees work life. If an employee is constantly down because of things going on in their personal life, exactly how effective can the employee be to the organization? Whether at work or dealing with personal life, that employee is still a person that could be going through something.
A well-rounded leader should be able to relate to and understand their employees. Sometimes that means knowing what is going on in their personal lives. That alone builds a sense of trust and moral for that organization knowing that someone in management is there for them. If the organization has trust and moral that also makes the organization effective and not just the manager. To be a good leader requires the ability to get a group of people to work together. “On the leader’s part, facilitating the building of bonds among members and underscoring the principle that everyone in a group has influence—nonparticipation for a member is simply not an option with even silence being participation—emphasizes everyone’s value and strengthens the sense of community.” (Buchele, Pg. 286) An effective leader builds bonds with employees. A sense of community that is established by manager goes a long way in progressing the organization.
Works Cited
Buchele, B. J. (2011). The good leader. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 61(2), 285-292.
Richardson, K. M., & Rothstein, H. R. (2008). Effects of occupational stress management intervention programs: A meta-analysis. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 13(1), 69-93.
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