Motivation and Empowerment
Evelyn Hamilton, Aaron Pobleh and Regina Taylor
CJA/474: Managing Criminal Justice Personnel
November 26, 2012
Instructor: Pam McIver
The term motivation and empowerment is a universal concept that is hoped to work towards the good of any organization. Motivation and empowerment does not come from rewards to employees but instead, recognition, responsibility and advancement. Leaders who are effective in motivating and empowering their staff have acquired a great achievement, which can increase efficiency, and self development of skills and abilities. When employers are concerned about the welfare and needs of their staff, this provides trust among staff. The purpose of this paper is to compare motivation and
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It was never “believe that an individual had to display every quality on the list in order to be considered” empowered (Tom Roger, 2011).
Analyze the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization
Today the style and practices of police leadership is changing rapidly. The term shared leadership is one being used by many police chiefs all across the country. They believe that this approach to management by sharing power and influence to individuals within the organization, who are otherwise hierarchical unequal, will view their leadership as a leadership which looks at the broader aspect of giving authority to employees which will allow them to make decisions, solve problems, and be held accountable for their actions (Mussellwhite, 2007).
Whenever officers are empowered they become dedicated to their jobs. Because they are given the skills, resources, authority, opportunity to be motivated and committed to their jobs, roles, or duties. Something which is refers to as being dedicated. Employees empowerment in a police department which delegate assignments, allow officers to take responsibility of their jobs results. It also allows them to make decisions about it. When officers are delegated with responsibilities, it makes them think in decision making, take control, behave, and take actions responsively, because they know that they will be held accountable
Are the people placed in these roles fit as being a leader? Are they capable of leading in a large quality in the future? There has been research on the varied of different leadership styles with in law enforcement agencies. Other views on the research focus on leadership and how it effects organizational commitment. There is a need to push out research and create different models in order to redesign of law enforcement agencies. According to Patrick J. Hughes “Increasing Organizational Leadership Through the Police Promotional Process”, he explains the current process used in promoting ranks and the available leadership education for law enforcement agents. There are clear connections between leadership styles and how to proper assess a true
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In the performance of their internal and external roles, police executives make numerous decisions and handle all kinds of problems. Executives vary on a number of matters, including how they allocate their time and the relative importance they attach to internal and external responsibilities. Police executive behavior can take many forms (Cordner, 2016.)
Employee motivation is, or at least must be, one of the key issues for directors, managers and personnel managers. The leader must be able to find the sensitive strings of his subordinates, which can be motivated by influencing them to achieve high performance. The correct use of motivation encourages staff to make more efficient use of their knowledge, skills, and talents. In today's turbulent, often chaotic environment, commercial success depends on the employee's talent and effort. Despite the many existing theories and practices, some of the motivation of leaders today remains a mystical term. This is partly due to the fact that people are motivated by different things and techniques.
On many instances there are a number of known leaders in the history of UK policing who have provide a motivational pedestal for the employees and the impacts of the same travelled a long way and kept the police department proud for times to come. The role of leadership is related to the motivation level of the organization.
Today’s Police leaders face daily challenges, e.g. violent crime, civilian unrest, terrorism, and being targeted themselves of unprovoked violent attacks, and the style and practice of police leadership is gradually evolving (Batts et all, 2014). For instance, when the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred in New York City, law enforcement; local, state, and federal public safety personnel responded. While there were many examples of heroism on that day, there were also many examples of failed leadership: By far, the most critical was that prior leadership development and planning was poor as demonstrated by the lack of coordination amongst first responders- the incident command system did not function to integrate awareness among agencies or to facilitate interagency responses that resulted in first responders fatalities (911 Report, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States); and information that was critical to inform leadership decision making was not shared amongst agencies. These agencies had never developed a leadership plan or trained to address a critical incident of this magnitude (911 Report, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States).
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In today’s business world, it seems that the major pitfall is in employees’ lack of motivation and engagement in their positions. This results in decreased productivity and satisfaction, and overall diminished views of the establishment. The relationships between employers and employees also suffer from poor morale in the workplace. According to an article by Chris Musselwhite, Creating a Culture of Motivation, the first place to start in correcting this problem, is to educate managers on the benefits of an empowered workforce, and how to effectively inspire them.
“Lack of leadership competency is often the most critical obstacle to successful police projects” (Yang, 2012, p. 535).
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This was an intensive twenty-two week course that prepares law enforcement managers for senior positions by uniquely combining academic principles with practical applications. I studied communication skills, employee performance appraisal, contemporary policing, motivational principles, managing the problem employee, employee relations, planning and decision making, the disciplinary process, ethics, professionalism and community image, media relations, project management, statistics, etc. I learned how to overcome contemporary leadership challenges and focused on understanding human behavior and day-to-day work relationships with subordinates, superiors and the public. This program helped me develop my leadership model to navigate today's changing law enforcement environment. I successfully completed the course with a 4.0 GPA. I also received praise from a number of instructors and was asked by one professor if he could share some of my work with future classes.
Leadership is a necessary component of any organization to include a criminal justice organization. In recent years, research has clearly indicated that leadership must be present in criminal justice organizations for a multitude of reasons. Leaders provide motivation and inspire their followers to progress while advancing toward a shared vision. This paper will discuss several different aspects of leadership and expand on the importance of having strong leaders in place. This paper will explain that there are different styles and theories of leadership which are utilized today. Basic principles of leadership as well as
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