Participative management and correctional personnel: A study of the perceived atmosphere for participation in correctional decision making and its impact on employee stress and thoughts about quitting
✍ Scribed by Risdon N. Slate; Ronald E. Vogel
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 881 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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✦ Synopsis
Participatory management has been identified in the empirical literature as a technique to alleviate job related stress in criminal justice organizations. Although many advantages have been notecL ./~,w criminal justice agencies have developed programs to c~qfitalize on the ben<fits rC employee participation in decision making. This article Jocuses on the perceptions of correctional (~fficers regarding their participation in decision making and the relationship between organizatiemal strew.< physi~al sttwss, and thoughts about quitting the job. Four hundred eighty-six emph,yees were surveyed J)'om seven correctional institutions in the Southeast United States. A structural model, which e.tplained 31 percent ~/ the variation, showed that as employee participation increased, physical and occupational stres.~ &'creased. Thoughts about quitting were associated with higher levels of physical stress, occupational stress, and the perception of a negative atmo.v~hereJbr participation. The re~ults lend support for the use and development of participatory management programs in the.field (~/corrections.