... article on unbalanced growth as one of the potential victims of the cost disease, along with, for example, live performing arts, health care, education and waste management. Nonetheless, the accumulated empirical evidence on this particular case–do the police suffer from cost disease?–is very scarce...

...Matti Vuorensyrjä Purpose This study tracks changes in labor productivity of the Finnish police force over a period of thorough management reforms (2009-2014). Theoretically, the study is based on the cost disease hypothesis. It was assumed that police management reforms have had no noticeable...

... of their direct supervisor (see Table V). Items on supervision and administration were included because officers’ views about management are often cited as elements of police culture, and distrust of bosses is thought to be one of the main reasons for street cops to emphasize solidarity (Reuss-Ianni, 1983...

... across four countries. Sanja Kutnjak Ivković can be contacted at: kutnjak@msu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Ethics Management Corruption Accountability Misconduct Use of force The organizational theory of police integrity proposed by Klockars and Kutnjak...

... Staffing Management Peer benchmarking Police strength Other measures have been more complex, including surplus value created by manufacturing processes in study areas (Nalla et al., 1997), education and public-welfare spending (Levitt, 1997), unemployment (Jackson, 1992), population age...

... is to outline Lincoln’s leadership principles (15 chapters, 126 principles), illustrated and supported by 14 stories that narrated by Lincoln himself. This analysis is based upon papers submitted by police managers who analyzed Lincoln on Leadership that considered his examples through the lenses...

... resources to do that rather than only resources to cover the strict law enforcement costs like cars and guns. A community representative on a different PPWG had the following observations: Decision making Management Accountability Administrators In April and May 2013, each member...

... corresponding determinants. Design/methodology/approach – It considers recent developments in the application of performance measures and management to public and, particularly, police services. It goes on to assess comparative rural police performance which suggests that the application of targets could...

... satisfaction Management Civilians Little is known about civilian employees of police agencies and the contributions they make to policing. In his review of the changing demography of American policing, Sklansky (2006) examines broad trends in officer race, gender and sexual orientation...

... that have been shown to be important to special operations team leadership in the existing literature. Thus, this study may begin to reveal the unique dynamics that exist in special operations teams outside of those previously explored. Leadership Management Police Critical incidents Special...

... of Governmental Studies, and Services (DGSS) survey and Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey were combined to produce a sample of 180 cities/municipal departments for analysis. Findings – Results indicate that the representation of minorities in political office...

... on detecting pathology, such as the MMPI, are more useful as screen-out mechanisms, while some personality instruments and scales – particularly those measuring desirable or positive traits – are potentially suited to screening in (e.g. Guller, 2003). Management Selection Psychology Screening...

.... The present study examines the relationship between law enforcement and the homeless by assessing the perceptions of police managers regarding the nature of the homeless problem in their communities, the perceptions of patrol officers regarding their role in dealing with homelessness, and departmental...

... in senior management, and the gender effect can be found in the USA, UK, and Australia (see also Dick and Metcalfe, 2007). Participation in testing is a self‐selected process, and is necessarily affected by the decision to not seek promotion. There is no shortage of theories on why women may not seek...

... to chance. The willingness of the management to take responsibility for the organization's systematic ability – and liberty – to ask fundamental questions about dominant values and norms, and thus to promote experiential learning, varied greatly. Whether the administrative cases were perceived to belong...

...Gennaro F. Vito; Geetha Suresh; George E. Richards Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the opinion of 126 police managers from 23 US states regarding their ideal leadership style as expressed under the items of the leader behavior description questionnaire (LBDQ). Design...

... Affairs and with senior members of the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior. It presents data showing that women officers are significantly more dissatisfied with their role, have a poorer relationship with their line managers and perceive that they receive a more authoritarian and directive style of management...

...Colleen Kadleck Police employee organizations and unions have been identified as obstacles to police management as well as to policy implementation. While much has been made of the behavior of these organizations, little empirical work has addressed the nature of these organizations in terms...

... research considering community policing attitudes among police officers are also discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Police Attitudes Community relations Management American policing has undergone a transformation in the past quarter century as organizations have shifted from Weberian...

...George T. Patterson A review of the literature suggests that law enforcement agencies adopted a paramilitary model of management based on little empirical evidence supporting the suitability of this model. Moreover, relatively little is known about the effects of prior military service experience...