Cja/444 Leadership Styles Paper

Organizational Behavior and Management: Criminal Justice SystemStudent NameCourseDateInstructorOrganizational Behavior and ManagementLeadership is the influence relationship that exists between leaders and their followers as they pursue real changes as well as reflect their mutual purpose. Leadership is visible through areas and situations like military operations, management, politics, and most importantly, in the criminal justice system. Different leadership styles exist and choosing the one to use depends on the characteristic, culture, beliefs, and goals of a leader. In the criminal justice system, the most used styles are charismatic, transformative, and transactional leadership. The essay looks to differentiate them through direct comparison, similarities, and differences as well as establishing on the best style to use in the criminal justice system. Charismatic LeadershipAccording to Joosse (2014), charismatic leaders have the ability to inspire as well as encourage people to achieve more that normally thought despite personal sacrifice and obstacles. This is possible through provocation of energy and commitment among subordinates, which results because of established positive atmosphere of change and vision (Jan, 2012). Common characteristics among charismatic leaders are maturity, inspiration, humility and communication.