Introduction
Police departments are plagued with countless stressors that affect police officers during their tour of duty. Stressors associated with the job could stem from the lack of resources, limited personnel support, broken or missing equipment to properly perform assigned duties and responsibilities, and low morale. The objective is to identify the best course of action to address the concerns of these officers and still perform the duties of the department at the highest level possible. If management addresses the concerns of the officers, along with providing the necessities for the job, this will boost the overall performance level of the department as a whole.
In order to best gage the severity of the situation at the department, …show more content…
The next concept would be based on conceptualization as the data collected can be used to determine the job satisfaction of each police officer within the department. A survey can used to collect realistic information on a scale from (1 to 5) where 1: illustrates a low level of job satisfaction and 5: illustrates a high level of job satisfaction. It is important to understand how job satisfaction plays a major role in the department because officers who exhibit a low level of job satisfaction can lead to other problems for the department such as retention, morale, and poor job …show more content…
These numbers can now be used to evaluate the next phase of the analysis and determine the appropriate steps to move forward in making the department function more efficiently. Gathering qualitative data should be done using a formula depicting the number of police officers who are either satisfied or not satisfied with their job in relation to the resources at the department’s disposal, whether or not the department is fully or understaffed, and based on the departments funding for adequate or inadequate equipment per each officer. If we focus on (X=250) as a whole and then use the results from the survey of job satisfaction, we can assume that number true. For example, if the survey illustrated that 70 officers were dissatisfied with their job, this number will represent that only 180 officers were either fully satisfied with their job or somewhere in
Police departments are plagued with countless stressors that affect police officers during their tour of duty. Stressors associated with the job could stem from the lack of resources, limited personnel support, broken or missing equipment to properly perform assigned duties and responsibilities, and low morale. The objective is to identify the best course of action to address the concerns of these officers and still perform the duties of the department at the highest level possible. If management addresses the concerns of the officers, along with providing the necessities for the job, this will boost the overall performance level of the department as a whole.
In order to best gage the severity of the situation at the department, …show more content…
The next concept would be based on conceptualization as the data collected can be used to determine the job satisfaction of each police officer within the department. A survey can used to collect realistic information on a scale from (1 to 5) where 1: illustrates a low level of job satisfaction and 5: illustrates a high level of job satisfaction. It is important to understand how job satisfaction plays a major role in the department because officers who exhibit a low level of job satisfaction can lead to other problems for the department such as retention, morale, and poor job …show more content…
These numbers can now be used to evaluate the next phase of the analysis and determine the appropriate steps to move forward in making the department function more efficiently. Gathering qualitative data should be done using a formula depicting the number of police officers who are either satisfied or not satisfied with their job in relation to the resources at the department’s disposal, whether or not the department is fully or understaffed, and based on the departments funding for adequate or inadequate equipment per each officer. If we focus on (X=250) as a whole and then use the results from the survey of job satisfaction, we can assume that number true. For example, if the survey illustrated that 70 officers were dissatisfied with their job, this number will represent that only 180 officers were either fully satisfied with their job or somewhere in