Quality Leadership in Achieving Goals of Criminal Justice Organizations

Quality Leadership in Achieving Goals of Criminal Justice Organizations
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Quality Leadership in Achieving Goals of Criminal Justice Organizations
Abstract
This research provides a broad context for understanding quality leadership's involvement in socialization approaches, leadership impacts on subordinates and criminal justice organizations, leadership effectiveness in networked environments, and leadership aspects and behaviors on achieving organizational goals. Previous studies related to the prior studies on the inter-relationship between leadership transformational acts, behavior characteristics, and interpersonal aspects of transformational leadership.
Introduction
Many governments and private criminal justice organizations seek to deploy effectiveness through efficient and innovative approaches. Leaders, the heads of the organizations, play an essential role in ensuring and maintain such efficient and innovative policies. According to previous empirical studies, scholars have come up with leadership theories to provide the most relevant organizational styles of leadership. Transcendental, transformational, and transactional leadership styles have been used to obtain a more efficient and accountable leadership style. According to the theories, quality leadership encourages high standards of an organization and values in the public and private sectors.
Ethical leadership is vital in building an ethical environment within an organization. Employees in an ethical environment can trust their supervisors and satisfy those with ethical leadership in an organization. Since employees can easily understand the behavior of an ethical surrounding created by their ethical leaders, employees' job strain is much less than an organization with inappropriate leadership. Moreover, employees in an ethical environment feel less exhausted and conflicted; therefore, employees' turnover rate is lower. An ethical environment also increases employees' morale, promoting engagement and higher retention within the workforce enabling the organization to meet its specified goal. Studies show that ethical leaders with an increased sense of responsibility have greater effectiveness in the top management and subordinate’s optimization.
Good governance in an organization requires transformed leaders to execute certain behaviors and participate in various organizational activities. Transformational leadership shows an appropriate level of commitment towards establishing organizational transformation, recognizing the need for modification, having a clear vision of bringing the change, and enacting a high level of behavioral and ethical values and solid conceptual capabilities to inspire followers' increased independence among them. Transformational leadership serves as a change antecedent under situations of incremental change. Transformational leadership in criminal justice organizations leads to the high quality of relationships between employees and their managers, increasing managers' perception of behavioral integrity.
Transformational leadership may affect organizational followers' identification, develop followers' potential, create an effective rel...