Gerald R. Griffin
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Gerald R. Griffin (born in 1956 in Lewiston, Idaho) is an American author, educator and professor.
The son of a minister, after serving in the United States Marine Corps, he received his university education at University of Tulsa, where he earned Bachelors and Doctors degrees, and at Southern Methodist University, earning a Masters of Business Administration. In 1988 he traveled to Botswana as a United States Peace Corps volunteer, where he worked among the Tswana people. His management book Machiavelli on Management has been translated into other languages, including Japanese and Portuguese.
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 doctoral dissertation at Tulsa, on "the relationship of college education to police patrolman performance."
He also authored The Ballad of Flight 007, the story of the downing of Korean Air Flight 007 by the former Soviet Union, and The Candle (1989).
Griffin's Theory m. has been prposed as the optimal management approach between the extremes of Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y.
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.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Machiavelli on Management: Playing and Winning the Corporate Power Game (New York: Praeger, 1991), ISBN 0-275-93699-6
