Empowerment and Accountability
Tags: SELF-efficacy; LAW enforcement officials; SUPERVISORS; POLICE; JOB stress; JOB satisfaction; MANAGEMENT -- Employee participation
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- Municipal police officer job satisfaction in Pennsylvania: a study of organisational development in small police departments. Julseth, Jason; Ruiz, James; Hummer, Don // International Journal of Police Science & Management;Autumn2011, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p243
Current policing literature indicates that the retention rate of patrol officers is in steady decline. On the whole, various policing factors that include fatigue, stress and workload appear to be major reasons for high turnover rates. In order to substantiate patrol officers' views of...
- Work stress and health in a sample of U.S. police. Kirkcaldy, Bruce; Cooper, Cary L. // Psychological Reports;Apr95, Vol. 76 Issue 2, p700
Identifies specific facets of subjectively perceived job stress and their effects on job satisfaction and physical and mental health among police officers in the Naperville Police Department in Illinois. Use of the Occupational Stress Indicator; Evaluation of personality attributes;...
- Evidencias de Validez de la Adaptaci�n Espa�ola de la Organizational Empowerment Scale. Mendoza Sierra, Ma. Isabel; Carlos Le�n Jariego, Jos�; Orgamb�dez Ramos, Alejandro; Borrego Al�s, Yolanda // Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo y de Las Organizaciones;2009, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p17
This paper presents validity evidences for the use of Spanish version of the Organizational Empowerment Scale (OES ) (Matthews, Diaz & Cole, 2003). The sample consisted of 305 employees from Spanish hotels. Reliability and factor structure (confirmatory factor analysis) of the scale were...
- Negative Affectivity as the Underlying Cause of Correlations Between Stressors and Strains. Chen, Peter Y.; Spector, Paul E. // Journal of Applied Psychology;Jun91, Vol. 76 Issue 3, p398
The extent to which negative affectivity (NA), the tendency to experience a wide range of negative emotions, inflated correlations between chronic job stressors and strains was examined in this study. NA was found to account for a large proportion of shared variance between stressors and...
- Effect of Demographic Variable on Organizational Role Stress and Job Satisfaction Relationship: A Study on Private Sector Managers. Srivastava, Shalini; Srivastava, Nidhi // Drishtikon: A Management Journal;2010, Vol. 1 Issue 2, p413
Stress has become an inevitable part of human life in recent times. It makes life more challenging and charming, however within a limit. In the past two decades, empirical researches on the theme of stress have increased manifold. The study of job satisfaction is important because it can be...
- A Production Self-efficacy Scale: An Exploratory Study. Mosley Jr., Don C.; Boyar, Scott L.; Carson, Charles M.; Pearson, Allison W. // Journal of Managerial Issues;Summer2008, Vol. 20 Issue 2, p272
Self-efficacy has received increased attention in management; in particular, task and domain-specific self-efficacy perceptions have been found to impact organizational commitment, job satisfaction, stress, and performance. More recently, general self-efficacy (GSE) has been linked with...
- Leader Behavior in a Police Command Bureaucracy: A Closer Look at the Quasi-Military Model. Jermier, John M.; Berkes, Leslie J. // Administrative Science Quarterly;Mar1979, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1
Relationships among instrumental, supportive, and participative leader behaviors, task variability and task interdependence, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment were examined in a police command bureaucracy. One hundred fifty-eight police officers were surveyed during normal...
- Teachers' Satisfaction with Life, Emotional Intelligence and Stress Reactions. Ignat, Aurora Adina // Petroleum - Gas University of Ploiesti Bulletin, Educational Sci;2010, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p32
The study intends to figure out a relationship between the emotional intelligence, self efficacy and the satisfaction with life on the one hand and the type of stress reaction of the teachers on the other hand. The study is going to find out if the satisfaction with life is correlated with...
- Workplace Emotions: The Role of Supervision and Leadership. Bono, Joyce E.; Foldes, Hannah Jackson; Vinson, Gregory; Muros, John P. // Journal of Applied Psychology;Sep2007, Vol. 92 Issue 5, p1357
In this experience sampling study, the authors examined the role of organizational leaders in employees' emotional experiences. Data were collected from health care workers 4 times a day for 2 weeks. Results indicate supervisors were associated with employee emotions in 3 ways: (a) Employees...
