Job Satisfaction and Work Performance of Police

Introduction Police Psychology and the Impact of Psychological Science on Policing

“…Rhodes (1984), for instance, found that in contrast to business and industrial employees, police officers ranked lower in the following five areas of job satisfaction: work, pay, promotions, supervision, and coworkers. Khoury and Khoury (1982) used these same five categories in a correlational study of officers' altruism, though, and found that perceived satisfaction did not sufficiently co-vary with altruism to justify causal interpretations. Another investigation of factors associated with job satisfaction revealed its positive relationship to level of rank, ~ears of experience, and perception of political favorit1sm (Patton, 1984).…”