Dick, Gavin P.M. (2009) The influence of job demands and managerial variables on organisational commitment in the police. In: Proceedings British Academy of Management Conference 2009. . British Academy of Management, London (KAR id:37762)
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Abstract
Police forces are under constant government pressure to improve their performance through better management of existing resources. However, little research has been done that explains how officers’ organisational commitment, an essential requirement for above average employee productivity, can be improved. Using a whole population survey of a county police force in the UK, managerial and job demand variables are explored that influence officers’ organisational commitment. It was found that the way officers were managed had the strongest influence on their organisational commitment while job demand variables were found to have a lesser influence. The findings indicate the importance of the current Police Leadership Development Board’s agenda to improve workforce management skills to encourage transformational leadership styles. However, there clearly remains much to be done to make police HRM policies more effective in achieving the promotion of officers who have the managerial competences needed to engender higher levels of organisational commitment.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Organisation Commitment Supervision Senior Management |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
Divisions: | Divisions > Kent Business School - Division > Kent Business School (do not use) |
Depositing User: | Gavin Dick |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2014 15:06 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/37762 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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