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Correctional Management: Functions, Skills, and Systems, Second Edition

NCJ Number
176138
Author(s)
J G Houston
Date Published
1999
Length
428 pages
Annotation
This book attempts to provide students and practitioners the information and tools they need to become managers and leaders of correctional organizations.
Abstract
The first part of the book, "Correctional Administration and the Evolution of Correctional Management," contains chapters that review correctional administration and the evolution of management theory. Part Two, "The Environment," discusses the community, the impact of the courts and the media on the correctional organization, and goals and values of system actors. Part Three, "The Organizational Process," reviews policy and the correctional organization, the budget process, and organization development. Part Four, "Working Through and with Others," examines motivation, managing the informal organization and leadership. Part Five, "The Manager and the Organization," studies planning and organizing, organizational control, decision-making, and quality corrections. The sixth part, "Topics of Special Interest," examines unit management in a correctional institution, privatization and ethics and social influence. Figures, tables, bibliographies, terms, notes, indexes