Gerald Griffin
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Gerald R. Griffin is an American author, educator and professor.
The son of a minister, he was born in Lewiston, Idaho. He received his university education at [The University of Tulsa], where he earned a Bachelors and Doctors degrees and [Southern Methodist University], earning a Masters of Business Administration. In 1988 he went to Botswana to serve as a United States Peace Corps volunteer.
His management book, "Machiavelli on Management[1]" , published in 1991 by Greenwood Publishing Group, New York was later translated into Japanese and published by Diamond Publishing Company, and Portuguese where it was published by Atlas Editors of Brazil.
He was one of the first germinal thinkers to propose the concept that Police Departments, Prisons and other Criminal Justice Organizations should follow the standard principles of management that business organizations are concerned with. This led to his published dissertation: The Relationship of College Education to Police Patrolman Performance which was written prior to his earning a doctors degree at The University of Tulsa.
He authored the Ballad of Flight 007 - the story of the downing of Korean Flight 007 by the former Soviet Union, and The Candle - first published in 1989.
He is an organizational behaviorist in both business and criminal justice. He has advocated a federal program of education - No Parent Left Behind, in which the emphasis is on developing parents - through education and training who can then model appropriate behavior for their children - and act as educational mentors.
