Abstract
The most valuable, important resource in any organisation is the people who work in it. Training staff is a vital role for any organisation, though consistently the most severely deprived area in an organisation has been training. The papers discuss the correctional officer as worker; relationships in the prison setting; and training principles, practices and packages. Starting from the ground up, it details how training policies must be based on notions of what a correctional officer is, in order to decide how the product can be achieved.
Proceedings of a seminar held 7-9 July 1987
Contents
- Foreword
- Opening address
Bill Kidston
Part one: Correctional officer as worker
- Introduction
- Working at the gaol: the prison officer's workplace
Ray Myers - Role of the prison officer in Australian prisons
Patrick Armstrong - Improving staff motivation and job satisfaction
Bill Paterson - Policework and professionalisation: some reflections and considerations in relation to prisonwork and correctional services
David Bradley
Part two: Relationships in the prison setting
- Introduction
- Conflict resolution for correctional officer training programs
Helena Cornelius
Part three: Training principles, practices and packages
- Introduction
- Extracts from the draft work force planning and training plan
Office of Corrections, Victoria - Off-the-job vs on-the-job training
Gerry Hay - The role of tertiary institutions in the development of the correctional officer
Ray Myers - Regional update of skills training
Aileen Sandler - Prison administrators program
Prisons Department, Western Australia - Prison Management Development Program
Prisons Department, Queensland - Senior management and industrial relations
Graham Harris - Correctional officer training
Adrian Sandery - Course material: liability management
Prisons Department, Western Australia
- Participants list