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Staff stress in contemporary jails: Assessing problem severity and the payoff of progressive personnel practices
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Using survey and organizational profile data from five podular direct supervision jails, the extent of stress occuring is estimated, and evidence indicating that the adoption of progressive personnel practices produces positive outcomes with respect to the incidence of turnover and workplace stress is presented.About:
This article is published in Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 37 citations till now.read more
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The impact of distributive and procedural justice on correctional staff job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of distributive and procedural justice on correctional staff job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, and found that only procedural justice, but not distributive justice, had a significant impact on job satisfaction.
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The impact of individual, organizational, and environmental attributes on voluntary turnover among juvenile correctional staff members
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the impact of individual employee characteristics, organizational attributes, and quality of the correctional environment on the turnover intentions of juvenile correctional staff members and found that both individual characteristics and organizational attributes were significant predictors of turnover intentions.
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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
Risdon N. Slate,Ronald E. Vogel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the perceptions of correctional officers regarding their participation in decision making and the relationship between organizational stress, physical stress, and thoughts about quitting the job.
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Correlates of correctional officer job stress: The impact of organizational structure.
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the organizational structure on correctional job stress has been studied and the results of multivariate analysis indicate that instrumental communication and procedural justice have a direct effect on correctional staff job stress.
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Take this job and shove it: An exploratory study of turnover intent among jail staff
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the antecedents (personal characteristics, perceptions of the work environment, and job attitudes) of turnover intent among staff at a large southern jail and found that the most powerful predictors of jail staff turnover intent were job involvement, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment.
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Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Complex Organizations.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the development and testing of questionnaire measures of role conflict and ambiguity and show that these two constructs are factorially identifiable and independent, and that they tend to correlate with measures of organizational and managerial practices and leader behavior.
SCL-90-R, Administration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual-II for the R(evised) Version and Other Instruments of the Psychopathology Rating Scale Series
LR Derogatis,L Derogatis +1 more
The Job Diagnostic Survey: An Instrument for the Diagnosis of Jobs and the Evaluation of Job Redesign Projects
J. R Hackman,Greg R. Oldham +1 more
TL;DR: The Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) as discussed by the authors is an instrument designed to measure the following three classes of variables: (1) the objective characteristics of jobs, particularly the degree to which jobs are designed so that they enhance the internal work motivation and the job satisfaction of people who do them; (2) the personal affective reactions of individuals to their jobs and to the broader work setting; and (3) the readiness of individual to respond positively to 'enriched' jobs.
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The social dimensions of correctional officer stress
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how various stressors, coping factors, and status characteristics influenced three types of stress: work stress, job dissatisfaction, and life stress, based on a survey of line staff in a southern correctional system.
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The experience of stress for correction officers: A double-bind theory of correctional stress.
TL;DR: For example, this article investigated the experience of stress for 143 mostly male New Jersey correction officers, including officers from both state and county, of all ranks, and with varying lengths of service.