Work characteristics and police officers’ performance

Hsieh, Wen Chung; Chen, Chun Hsi Vivian; Lee, Chi-Cheng; Kao, Rui-Hsin

doi:10.1108/13639511211250820

Cited by 18 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 54 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Another interesting phenomenon found by the study is that the study subjects' seniority was negatively associated with their organizational commitment. This and related research (e.g., [74]) have considered that service seniority will affect educational training effectiveness as revealed from related research findings. In other words, senior harbor police officers in Taiwan may have a lower value recognition, effort, and loyalty toward their organizations.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

See 1 more Smart Citation

How to Shape the Employees’ Sustainable Work Attitude: The Moderating Effect of Supervisor Attitudes

Kao

et al. 2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Education and training not only play the key role to promote the sustainable ability of employees, but in the establishment of employees’ work attitudes as well. Moreover, leaders play an important role in promoting the effectiveness of education and training. The objectives of this study were to explore the effect of the police department’s annual subject training on the work attitudes of harbor police. This study also examined the moderating effect of supervisor attitudes on the association between police training effectiveness and police’s work attitudes in expectation to more concretely understand the role of supervisor attitudes in the harbor police’s annual subject training, to consolidate the good work attitude of the police for sustainability. The frontline police officers of Taiwan’s harbor police agency were chosen as the study population. This study adopted the convenience sampling method to conduct the questionnaire survey in August 2019. It requested for the respondents who replied to the questionnaire within 15 days after receiving the questionnaire to be considered as the first respondents. For those who replied to the questionnaire no later than one month were considered as the second respondents. This paper collected a total of 584 questionnaires and 492 were valid. The result of this study showed that education and training had a highly positive effect on the work attitudes of police officers. Moreover, the overall attitudes of supervisors toward police education and training were found to have a significantly positive moderating effect on the association between education and training effectiveness and the police’s work attitudes. The results of this study prove the linkage between the effectiveness of education and training and the supervisor attitudes.

show abstract

Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Based on past research [43,74], the factors of gender, age, educational level, and years of service were used as control variables. Empirical studies showed that education may affect the work performance of police officers [75].…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to Shape the Employees’ Sustainable Work Attitude: The Moderating Effect of Supervisor Attitudes

Kao

et al. 2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, that is not to imply that police self-efficacy has never been examined (see Aremu, 2005; Hsieh et al, 2012; Love & Singer, 1988; Singer & Love, 1987; Taris et al, 2010). Although each of these studies have been important for laying the groundwork for the study of policing and self-efficacy, there are noteworthy limitations future research can expand on.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, there is only a small sample of studies that have examined self-efficacy (i.e., perceptions of confidence) in relation to the policing profession. Within them, there is also only scarce discussion of the intricacies of officer experience and how it relates to the development of confidence (Aremu, 2005; Hsieh et al, 2012; Love & Singer, 1988; Singer & Love, 1987). Furthermore, there is yet to be a self-efficacy study conducted with police officers from the United States, despite being the focus of both classic (see Bayley & Bittner, 1984; Brown, 1988; Wilson, 1968) and contemporary (see Willis & Mastrofski, 2014, 2017, 2018) examinations of officer experience and craft.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Confidence in Their Craft: Assessing the Relationship Between Officer Work Experiences and Their Perceptions of Self-Efficacy

Somers

Terrill

2022

Criminal Justice and Behavior

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The detailed study of officer experience has received relatively little attention within the policing literature despite it being integral to nearly every facet of their role. Drawing on survey data ( N = 691 officers), the current study examines how the unique work experiences of officers (i.e., shifts, crime areas, duty assignments, in-service trainings) are related to their perceptions of confidence (i.e., self-efficacy) in the ability to perform different job-related tasks. Results revealed that more tenured officers, having worked a greater number of shifts, and those who completed increased in-service trainings had significantly higher confidence in performing both law enforcement and order-maintenance/service-oriented duties. Several other officer characteristics were also found to have varying levels of significance in relation to their confidence. Overall, the findings support the inclusion of more nuanced measures of officer experience, as well as the potential applicability of self-efficacy theory within policing research moving forward.

show abstract

“…Most previous studies have discussed the relationship between organizational innovation and company performance, but few scholars have studied the importance of employees' innovativeness for organizational sustainability. Furthermore, in understanding work design and supporting its improvement, the validated work design questionnaire [13] has proven to be a valuable tool producing benefits in a range of industries, including information technology [30], nursing [31], and policing [32] ( [16], p. 2).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How to Establish a Sustainable Organization? A Study on the Relationship between Social Work Characteristics and Innovativeness for Employees of Organizations

Kao

Chiang

et al. 2021

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The shaping of employees’ innovativeness is an important way of building a sustainable organization. Therefore, in order to have a sustainable police organization, the innovativeness of the police must be established in order to achieve the objective of maintaining law and order. In this study, Taiwan’s first-line border police officers served as the research subject, and the cross-level model perspective was adopted to investigate their innovativeness from task-oriented and socially oriented viewpoints. At the same time, investigations were made into the cross-level direct and indirect effects of social work characteristics and collective efficacy toward police officers’ self-efficacy and innovativeness. A multilevel model was adopted to analyze the quantitative data obtained with 249 border police officers in Taiwan as the research objects. The results showed that social work characteristics have a positive influence on collective efficacy, and motivational work characteristics have a positive influence on employees’ self-efficacy and innovativeness. Their self-efficacy showed a positive influence on innovativeness, and a mediating effect on the relationship between motivational work characteristics and innovativeness. Moreover, social work characteristics and collective efficacy have a cross-level contextual effect on self-efficacy and innovativeness, while social work characteristics and self-efficacy have a cross-level interaction on police officers’ innovativeness. In general, this study confirmed the importance of employees’ innovativeness for the establishment of a sustainable police organization. The characteristics of social and motivational work, self-efficacy, and collective effectiveness are important variables for establishing employees’ innovativeness.

show abstract

Work characteristics and police officers’ performance

Cited by 18 publications

References 54 publications

How to Shape the Employees’ Sustainable Work Attitude: The Moderating Effect of Supervisor Attitudes

How to Shape the Employees’ Sustainable Work Attitude: The Moderating Effect of Supervisor Attitudes

Confidence in Their Craft: Assessing the Relationship Between Officer Work Experiences and Their Perceptions of Self-Efficacy

How to Establish a Sustainable Organization? A Study on the Relationship between Social Work Characteristics and Innovativeness for Employees of Organizations

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About