NOTE: Please review the attached document Leadership Reflection, located under course materials, before beginning this assignment.In 500-750 words reflect on what you learned from your leadership interview. Describe what you learned from your interview. Describe how you will use the information in your own leadership experiences. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide and Typing Template, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies: 2.4: Evaluate intrapersonal skills.PSY693-RS-LeadershipReflection.docx

There are issues with correctional officer turnover and the impact it has on inmate safety (http://www.doc.state.vt.us/about/reports/attrition/view) also. (See also: Lommel, J. (2004). Turning around turnover. Corrections Today, 66(5), 54–57.) Concerns include the impact the turnover has on other employees as they may feel that the rookies are not as dedicated to the success of the institution. This impacts motivation and communication between officers and with inmates.Studies of criminal justice employees consistently indicate that one of the biggest stressors for an officer or employee is the organization itself, not the nature of the job.Problems at Centervale Corrections FacilityYou are the Corrections Human Relations and Training Officer for a large metropolitan correctional facility known as the Centervale Corrections Facility. This facility has existed for 17 years and has well-developed policies and practices.The Centervale Corrections Facility was one of the more respected facilities because it diligently practiced the humane and ethical treatment of inmates. Employees were always reported to have been satisfied with the job. Employee evaluation processes within the organization were well thought of for their level of fairness and effectiveness. Moreover, the structural and social aspects of jobs were always well planned, so that employees were clear about what was required of them.However, over the past two years, things have changed.The level of job satisfaction experienced by employees is at an all time low. A huge number of people aspiring to be officers apply to your facility every year, yet they don't seem to stay. Upon being questioned, the officers list burnout, communication problems with senior officers, lack of motivation, low pay, poor understanding of job requirements, and poor cooperation from other agencies among their most important reasons for being unhappy with the job. They have been reported to say, “This is not what we expected. This is supposed to be one of the best correctional facilities in the country. But everything is messed up.” It seems as though somewhere over the past few years the staff at the Centervale Corrections Facility has become stressed and unsatisfied with the work environment.The turnover is causing a lot of stress and strain within and around the facility. It is becoming painfully obvious to the government authorities that somewhere down the line planning and management of the Centervale Corrections Facility has deteriorated.For this assignment you are the Human Relations and Training Officer, you have been assigned the task of reviewing the existing policies and processes in the facility and suggesting an improved management plan so that job satisfaction will increase and job stress will decrease. To do this, you need to understand the reasons for low job satisfaction.Your revised management plan must address the following:How will you prevent burnout among the employees?How you will improve communication between senior and junior officers?What are the ways in which you will increase motivation and job performance?How will you improve cooperation from other agencies?The above are specific questions you need to answer. Keeping these questions in mind, to bring about a change in the situation at Centervale Corrections Facility, you also need to focus on:Job redesignEffective leadershipImproved supervisionEffective evaluation and performance measuresImage with other agenciesAs the Human Relations and Training Officer, you have a significant task at hand. You need to revise the policies and processes in the facility so that job satisfaction increases and job stress decreases. To do this, you need to understand the reasons for low job satisfaction

Part II – Essay. Give complete and detailed answers to any two (2) of the following questions. Thirty (30) points each.Please describe and explain the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) in terms of the way in which it reformed the way federal elections are financed and regulated. Please discuss any constitutional challenges to the law. Please draw your answer from Bardes (CH. 9) and lecture notes.Please describe and explain Electoral Constituencies Theory as a possible cause of divided government from the late 1960’s through the late 1980’s. Be complete and detailed.Please explain and describe the concept of Realignment. Explain how realignment contributed to Republican Congressional majorities, beginning in the mid-1990’s. Also, please provide another example of realignment, other than the one you will have provided to explain the GOP Congressional election win. Draw your analysis from both lecture notes and Bardes (ch. 8).Please describe and explain Political Action Committees (PAC’s). How are they organized and structured, based on federal election campaign finance law? What kind of candidates are PACs likely to give their contributions to? Why? Please draw your answer and analysis from both interest group lecture notes and Bardes (ch.9).Please explain and analyze the hypothesis associated with Rational Balancing. How does it try to explain both (a) divided govt. and (b) the phenomenon of the president’s party suffering a net loss in Congressional House seats in almost every mid-term election in the post-Civil War era? Also, are there any other theories that might explain these mid-term election outcomes?