NCJ Number
131646
Date Published
Unknown
Length
126 pages
Annotation
The Law Enforcement Executive Management (LEEM) Profile, based on a national personality, cognitive, performance, and skill-based assessment of police, corrections, and sheriff's agencies, was developed as a result of a pilot study undertaken to ascertain if there were indicators which could identify potential managers in those agencies and if those qualities could be developed among personnel.
Abstract
The findings suggest that there were statistically significant differences in several variables which could serve as criteria for selecting managers. These included critical and original thinking abilities, higher education, career commitment, competitive drive, speed and impatience, vigor, stability, sociability, self-esteem, and personal relations. An average of nearly 30 percent of the nonexecutive sample displayed potential levels similar to the highest levels of the executive level, indicating an identifiable agency resource. Among the highest percentile of law enforcement managers, important potential indicators increased with rank and age, but then peaked and actually declined at specific levels. 21 tables, 20 figures, and 42 references (Author abstract modified)