Identify and describe three management styles and provide a comparison of the three styles.
Assignment 2: LASA 1: Managing Correctional Staff and Inmates
Students, at some point in their future criminal justice career, may decide that a career in corrections offers the desired job security, financial security, and stability that their lives require. Over time, a corrections officer will have gained sufficient knowledge and credibility to work up through the ranks to become responsible for managing others and leading policy decisions. Being knowledgeable about the plethora of management and leadership styles and theories is essential to becoming a successful manager and leader.
This LASA is your opportunity to demonstrate how policies, procedures, and management and leadership styles must be adapted from time to time based on the assessment of a problem or problems. It is important that you clearly identify the problem (problem statement) and then use multivariate analysis to identify, isolate, and solve the problem or problems using a process paper to communicate the information that led to your recommendations, while differentiating between managing and leading in a correctional setting.
Instructions:
You have been appointed as an associate warden of the Centervale Men’s Prison. The Centervale Men’s Prison has operated in a very traditional style for the past forty years of its existence. The warden has been there for a long time. He operates in a very autocratic fashion that is becoming increasingly ineffective. Line staff members have been joining the union at increasing numbers, their morale is very low, and they complain that they are never told what is going on or when a threat of conflict is developing between inmate groups. The midlevel managers of the prison’s departments believe they do not have the authority to make any decisions without first getting approval from the warden.
You accepted the position as associate warden at the Centervale Men’s Prison because you wanted to make a difference. In your assessment, you confirm that the morale of the staff and inmates has reached an all-time low; the staff is calling in sick at record numbers, and the inmates are becoming restless and aggressive. You also find out that the warden is nearing retirement (ten months away) and has lost interest in the operations and leadership in the facility. You must use all your leadership and management knowledge to get the facility back on track.
In your evaluation of the facility, you see an opportunity to make improvements. In order to change things, you must identify the risks associated with each change, as well as a plan for gaining the approval of the warden. What types of changes should be made, and what are some actions you will take to make the changes? What end results will be in place once your changes are implemented?
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