... the main lines of our own earlier presentation of the model (Vuorensyrjä, 2013 ; see also Lindbeck's original presentation from 2006) [1] . Cost disease Police Productivity Technological change Management “Labor-intensive” means that, in these industries and occupations, the process...

...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...

... departments and sheriff offices drawn from the 2007 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) database. Agencies with 100-3,000 sworn police personnel were eligible for participation. With the exception of a few very large municipal agencies, the upper bound of 3,000 employees...

... 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...

... 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...

...). Police Staffing Management Peer benchmarking Police strength Police administration requires extensive care and deliberation. One of the most critical components of police administration involves staffing allocation decisions. Staffing allocation has important implications (e.g. department...

... Matteo, 2014 ; Leuprecht, 2014). These concerns have arisen, in part, over the growing cost of policing (Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 2012a, b ; Public Safety Canada, 2014) in the context of austere financial management strategies introduced by a succession of neo-liberal governments (Clarke...

... 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...

... resistance to officers reporting to civilians was a significant barrier to integration of civilians into the workplace. Sworn officers may not only perceive civilianization of management positions as taking desirable supervisory slots, but also may be less accepting of direction from supervisors who have...

... of the literature provided three of the highest repeating areas in which special operations leadership was expressed: authenticity (as expressed by authentic leadership theory), emotional intelligence (EI), and self-efficacy to deal with highly complex and dangerous situations. Leadership Management...

.... As such, it is useful to those working in selection who are facing the choice of psychological instrument. Possibilities for future research are presented, and development opportunities for a best practice instrument are discussed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Management Selection Psychology...

... 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...

...). King and Dunn (2004) commented on the low‐visibility police practice of “dumping,” or transporting troublesome persons across jurisdictions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Broken‐windows Interviews Management Implementation Administrators Community‐oriented policing One...

...” (Adlam and Villiers, 2003, p. 242 .) The discussion of leadership is not complete, however, without addressing management. Much like effective leadership, proper management of an organization's people and resources is an essential element of success (Kotter, 1991 ; Ricketts, 2009). This is true...

.... 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 on the individual...

...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 This study considers the factors which influence employee attitudes toward community policing. The analysis builds on prior...

...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...