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The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future, Second Edition

Author(s): Richard L. Phillips
Charles R. McConnell, MBA, CM, Human Resource and Editorial Consultant, Ontario, New York
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763733117
  • ISBN-10:0763733113
  • Hardcover    500 pages      © 2005
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Effective management is essential to the stability and safety of correctional facilities. The Effective Corrections Manager: Correctional Supervision for the Future, Second Edition provides current information on management and supervision, and offers practical advice based on direct experience. Managing a correctional agency hinges on effectively recruiting, training, directing, and motivating people. This book teaches readers how to be successful in those endeavors. This is fascinating reading for those involved in either developing their own managerial skills or in teaching others how to be effective supervisors in the corrections environment. In these settings, poor management of people or resources at the individual department level can create major organizational problems. In extreme cases, those inadequate decisions and techniques can cost lives.

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Fully revised and updated with new information and additional examples, case studies, and exercises

New coverage of the evolution of corrections, ethics, and team building

Chapters include examples and exercises that illustrate and apply the material corrections managers will likely encounter in the field

Each chapter begins with a short case study drawn from the real world

Covers all the major management areas required for those entering the field of corrections, including labor-management relations, legal issues, writing, effective delegation, coping with changing environments, and more

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Part I  The Setting
Chapter 1  Evolving in a Changing Environment
Chapter 2  Is Corrections Really Different?
Chapter 3  The Nature of Supervision: Corrections and Everywhere
Chapter 4  Definitions, Titles, and Other Intangibles
Chapter 5  The Basic Management Functions

Part II  The Supervisor and Self
Chapter 6  Delegation: How To Form the Habit
Chapter 7  Time Management: Expanding the Day without Stretching the Clock
Chapter 8  Self-Management and Personal Supervisory Effectiveness

Part III The Supervisor and the Employee
Chapter 9  Interviewing: The Hazardous Hiring Process
Chapter 10  The One-to-One Relationship
Chapter 11  Leadership: Style and Substance
Chapter 12  Organizational Communication: Looking Up, Down, and Laterally
Chapter 13  Motivation: Intangible Forces Working For and Against Management
Chapter 14  Performance Appraisal: Cornerstone of Employee Development
Chapter 15  Criticism and Discipline: Guts, Tact, and Justice
Chapter 16  The Problem Employee and Employee Problems
Chapter 17  The Supervisor and the Human Resource Department

Part IV  The Supervisor and the Task
Chapter 18  Ethics and Ethical Standards
Chapter 19  Decisions, Decisions
Chapter 20  Managing Change: Resistance is Where You Find It
Chapter 21  Communication: Not by Spoken Word Alone
Chapter 22  How To Arrange and Conduct Effective Meetings
Chapter 23  Budgeting: Annual Task and Year-Long Implications 
Chapter 24  Quality and Productivity: Sides of the Same Coin
Chapter 25  Teams, Team Building, and Teamwork
Chapter 26  Methods Improvement: Making Work—and Life—Easier
Chapter 27  Reengineering and Reduction in Force
Chapter 28  Training and Continuing Education
Chapter 29  The Supervisor and the Law
Chapter 30  Unions: Building Constructive Relationships
Index


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Richard L. Phillips

Richard L. Phillips is an experienced correctional manager with a 35-year career in juvenile justice and adult corrections, serving in the State, Federal, and private sectors. His correctional experience includes assignments in minimum, medium, and high security correctional facilities, as well as in urban detention settings. He has held a variety of field management positions, as well as regional office and headquarters administrative posts. Currently he is a private correctional consultant who has provided services to a variety of Federal, State, and private criminal justice agencies. He has served as an accreditation auditor for the American Correctional Association (ACA), and in a leadership capacity in a variety of professional organizations. He is also the author or contributing editor of numerous publications for Federal agencies, ACA, and private publishers. He holds a BA degree in sociology from Northern Illinois University.

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Charles R. McConnell, MBA, CM-Human Resource and Editorial Consultant, Ontario, New York

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  • “The authors do a very good job, often going beyond expectations to explain and clarify their ideas and concepts.”

    -M. George Eichenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Sociology, and Criminal Justice, Tarleton State University-Central Texas

     

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This book is suitable for Criminal Justice and Sociology courses that prepare students for correctional work. It is also an indispensable reference for corrections managers.

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