What leadership qualities do you believe are necessary for effective administration in correctional agencies, and do you think they are different than those needed by leaders in the court system? Briefly explain your rationale.
ANSWER THE ABOVE QUESTION AND THEN REPLY TO MY CLASSMATE’S RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE? (A MINIMUM OF 125 WORDS or MORE)
CLASSMATE’S POST
Leadership is central to all, military, educational, and commercial agencies. The qualities are the standard of a thing as measured against other things of a similar kind, it is the degree of excellence which separates one thing to another. Correctional organizations must invest heavily in recruiting and developing leaders who can define, refine, and achieve goals, solve problems effectively, creatively, and efficiently, and elicit their subordinates’ best efforts. Factors such as job importance, accomplishments, challenge, teamwork, management fairness, and rewards become very important (Peak, & Giacomazzi, 2019). At a minimum, we need prison and jail leaders who are highly motivated, energetic, humanistic, mature, reflective and innovative. They should be capable of relating well with, and bringing out the best in, their subordinates and inmates. They must have very strong organizational management skills, based on expertise in human resources, personnel management, labor relations, and public administration.
Furthermore, leadership in correctional system and leadership in the court system are much of the same. They should be well educated in penology, criminology, correctional law, sociology of organizations, and sociology of poverty. These correctional and court system leadership must have a solid grounding in the scholarly and popular literature on leadership (Harvey, 2019). They also need to be conversant and comfortable with public accounting and budgeting, prison law, maintenance and operation of the physical and mechanical penal infrastructure, public relations and legislative politics. Effective leadership demands a deeper understanding of things. In an insensitively simplistic way, management thinking says, find the source of the pain and stop it. Effective leadership demands a deeper understanding of things. The system fragmentation is largely believed to directly affect the amount and type of crime that exist (Peak, & Giacomazzi, 2019). Management is responsible for managing the manageable, fixing the fixable, securing the securable and protecting resources. Authentic leadership, however, is dealing with surprises, describing the unknown, predicting the unpredictable, anticipating the nameless and anonymous, organizing chaos, and stepping in places where angels fear to walk, speaking with authority from a dusty crystal ball, staying positive and hopeful while everyone else is going insane. Leadership may start at the top, but it needs reinforcement and amplification all the way down and across the organization (Harvey, 2019). One of the most important qualities of an effective leader is the ability to recruit and inspire subordinates.
References
Harvey, W. L. (2019, June-July). A Chief’s Perspective On Police Week: Creating a legacy for
learning and remembrance. Law Enforcement Technology, 46(4), 8. Retrieved from https://link-gale-com.libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/apps/doc/A593148813/PPCJ?u=oran95108&sid=PPCJ&xid=978b731d
Peak, K. J., & Giacomazzi, A. L. (2019). Justice administration: Police, courts, and corrections management(9th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
