Adopting Transformational Leadership Practices in Corrections Can Improve Employee Morale and Retention
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Training Description
Transformational leadership enables higher performance in correctional organizations as leaders create a safe environment that results in positive change. Effective correctional leaders realize that employees are motivated differently, and therefore, they strive for balanced leadership that emphasizes firmness, fairness, and consistency. Corrections employees who feel stressed tend to exhibit punitive attitudes toward inmates. Since transformational leadership appeals to social values and encourages collaboration toward common goals such as crime reduction, a correctional institution is an ideal location for widespread social change to occur. Making this shift could likely lead to the reduction of overall inmate-upon-officer assaults as well as inmate-upon-inmate assaults, thus increasing safety outcomes in a work environment often plagued with safety concerns.
Trainer Biography
Dr. Michael Pittaro is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice with American Military University and an adjunct professor of criminal justice with East Stroudsburg University. Before pursuing a career in higher education, Dr. Pittaro worked in corrections administration; has served as the Executive Director of an outpatient drug and alcohol facility; and as Executive Director of a crime prevention agency. He has been teaching for the past 17 years while also serving internationally as an author, editor, trainer, and subject matter expert. Dr. Pittaro holds a BS in Criminal Justice (Who’s Who Among University Students – 1989); an MPA in Public Administration; and a PhD in criminal justice. He resides in Nazareth, Pennsylvania with his two sons (Dakota and Darrian).
Learning Objectives
At the end of this training you will be able to…
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- Describe the advantages of transformational leadership practices in corrections
- Explain how emotional intelligence benefits transformational leaders
- Discuss how transformational leadership practices can minimize correctional officer burnout.
- Compare and contrast transformational leadership practices with transactional leadership practices.