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Read others’ questions and choose one. Write a 300- to 500-word response to this question. Do you have experience that answers the question? At different points in your career, would you have answered this question differently? Why? *Include your own experience (make something up about working as a hotel manager) as well as two citations that support your assertions as sourced from peer-reviewed academic journals, industry publications, books, and/or other sources. Cite your sources using APA formatting. Reply to bellow post: “Hello Class, It is important here to echo noted complexity scholars who tell us that the aim of complexity leadership is not to replace traditional leadership roles but to enhance them, making leadership more contemporary and viable in the knowledge era ( Uhl- Bien et. al, 2009). I love my position as a leader but I am also faced with the severe challenges of changing the ideology of my facility, as I am coming behind and administration that had the “ us vs. them mentality”. Before I was placed as the Warden of my facility there was a severe breakdown with the communication between offenders and staff, causing a severe spike in violence and a portrayal of a bad reputation of the institution. As the leader that was put in the position to implement the change needed to change the perspective and the identity of the facility. I faced major resistance from the Correctional Officers who treated the prisoners inhumane, and exercised their personal biases to enforce policy and procedure. For more information please visit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_magazine

I am in the process of revamping the whole training program which is revolves around terminology like ladies, gentleman, Mam, Sir, instead of inmates, offenders, criminals, and jail-bergs. My way of enhancement is to empower the positions of my facility and allow the Officers to become leaders in changing the paradigm of control, and focus more on change and recidivism. Administratively the staff was hands off, and officers were not being professional in realizing that their positions are bigger than corrections. We as leaders are not just here to be an authority figure but one that promote change and rehabilitation. Since I have been place as the Warden I have had mixed reactions on my new approach on how to interact with the inmates or offenders in my facility. Recently I had a young lady who had been in prison for 12 years return to prison after being out only 45 days. She was made out of a mockery by the staff and I immediately communicated to them. We failed this young lady because what did we do as a facility to change her course of thinking after having her in our direct supervision for 12 years? My question to the class is treating prisoners like animals within a institution, the norm of being in prison? As a leader am I fighting a uphill battle in trying to implement the motto “ that it’s bigger then corrections”, and it’s more then just about control. Am I taking the wrong approach as a leader for trying to enhance my officers knowledge from a more conventional authoritative figure, to more of a mentor, a role model, and a resource that can be used to incite change and rehabilitation, instead of showing disrespect and frowning down on them because they are prisoners? References Uhl-Bien, M., & Marion, R. (2009). Complexity leadership in bureaucratic forms of organizing: A meso model. The Leadership Quarterly, 20, 631–650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.04.007″