NCJ Number
104885
Date Published
1986
Length
255 pages
Annotation
This text not only addresses the behavioral and functional aspects of police management, but explores major issues in modern law enforcement including the use of power, civil liability, promotions, labor relations, and handling change and conflict.
Abstract
Following a survey of management theories, the book focuses on behavior in the organizational environment. Subjects examined include leadership styles, communications with attention to the 'Johari Window' processing model, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, transactional analysis, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument. The section on organizational methods begins with a discussion of techniques of planning behavior and then outlines a decisionmaking process. The management by objective system, fiscal management, fiscal control, budgeting, delegating tasks, and staff meetings are also discussed. The final chapters try to show police managers how to institute changes and cope with major issues facing law enforcement today. Among the areas covered are liability, dealing with unions, the promotion process, conflict resolution and overcoming resistance to change, and organizational development achieved largely by improving technical, rational, and human skills. Future trends in law enforcement organization and leadership are examined. Charts, footnotes, and index.