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Motivation
The assertion makes little sense that "criminal justice employees are unmotivated," for a number of reasons. The first is that there are thousands of different organizations and millions of people working in criminal justice. It would be near impossible to discern any particular trends about their motivation levels, and those trends would not hold outside of a given position or organization. The reality is that motivation is a fairly complex issue. Everybody has some sort of motivation for going to work, even if that motivation is to maintain their security with respect to food and housing. But most people have other motivations as well. Understanding what motivation in the workplace actually is, and how it can be used to explain or enhance performance, begins with avoiding such careless and blanket statements.
There are a number of ways to improve the motivation of criminal justice workers. The text highlights a number of different ways to conceptualize motivation, such as Maslow's hierarchy, the two factor theory and other such theories. The essence is that people are motivated at a certain basic level to do their jobs because they enjoy the security of a paycheck. But there are usually higher-level motivations that people have. Maslow argues in favor of social needs, but also in favor of more personal needs such as self-actualization. All workers can be motivated by these things -- feeling that they are a part of a team,...
By creating a positive culture where people want to work for each other, and for the betterment of their communites, and by defining what these ideas mean, it is possible for managers in criminal justice organization to improve the morale and the motivation in their organizations.
Furthermore, people are motivated by things like recognition. In some cases, that recognition comes with pay and promotion, but in other cases it is just a matter of people noticing that you are doing good work. So managers can improve motivation be creating rewards for people. If the rewards are created in a manner that is systematic, such that people know that if they exhibit certain behaviors they can expect a reward, that will help an organization deliver specific behaviors..
This is why leadership is so important. Leaders define the culture of the organization, but they also have the power to create the rewards systems that the organization uses. As such, leadership plays both a tangible and intangible role in motivation, by defining excellence, and setting up the systems to tap into the different things that motivate people as a way of encouraging workers to pursue this…
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