National Institute of Corrections Library

The impact of care – “the expression of interest by one or others in another’s life outside the scope of work” – from coworkers on correctional officer work is examined. It appears that when coworkers seem to care about a correctional officer, that officer may experience less stress, burnout, and bitterness, and more job satisfaction. Authored by Dial, Kelly Cheeseman; Johnson, W. Wesley.

The impact of job involvement on the work of correctional staff is examined. This article is an important addition to the research on correctional officer job satisfaction since the area of job participation has been little studied. It seems that “job involvement had a statistically significant positive relationship with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and both forms of work-family conflict. Job involvement was observed to have non-significant direct effects on correctional staff job stress, life satisfaction, and turnover intentions” (p. 57). Authored by Lambert, Eric G..

This is a great addition to the scarce literature regarding the work satisfaction of community corrections officers. “Results indicate that employees are most satisfied when their occupational tasks are meaningful experiences into which they have input and are collaborative efforts with supervisors. Background characteristics of officers had no influence on job satisfaction, indicating that organizational culture and management style are the more important factors in explaining employee satisfaction and, possibly, retention” (p. 39). Authored by Getahun, Seble; Sims, Barbara; Hummer, Don.