MANAGING CRIMINAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATION

Managing Criminal Justice Organization

Managing Criminal Justice Organization

Introduction

We shall begin this essay by first differentiating in brief between Managements and leaderships, which can be summarized as follows:Management: Management is the direction and controlling of a group of people through coordination and harmonization for the accomplishment of a goal or goals that are beyond individualized efforts. To achieve this act, managements encompass deployment and manipulation of human, finance, technology and natural resources. The act of management can also be effectively referred to the individual or group of individual who are involved with management work. (Bateman, 2007)

Differences between leadership and management personal experience

Leadership is the art of influencing individuals through the provision of purpose, direction and motivation for the purpose of improvement and mission accomplishment within organizations. In an organization like Wal-Mart, the leadership facet of management is one of the many assets that a successful manager must have to maximize the output of organizations through administrative measures such as organizing, planning directing, controlling and having the correct and appropriate number of staff. Therefore, (Bateman, 2007) a manager can not simply be a leader if he does not have the formal authority to be effective for qualitative initiatives without the support of the senior management to play the part of an impacting role model. There are also instances where leaderships are not required when for example motivated groups and individuals many find the roles of leaders as a dominating factor. This fact proves that leaderships may not be essential at times and therefore can be considered just as an asset within organizations.

The difference between the Wal-Mart managements and leaderships is that; managements rule and they must be obeyed while leaderships tend to make individuals naturally follow by their personal choice. A manager may have earned his authoritative position through the time ...