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Managing of Police Organizations, Fifth Edition

NCJ Number
193718
Author(s)
Paul M. Whisenand Ph.D.; R. Fred Ferguson M.P.A
Date Published
2002
Length
334 pages
Annotation
This is a textbook for any course in police organization and management, as well as for officers studying for promotion exams.
Abstract
The book teaches what individuals can do to create a stronger and more effective agency and how to manage a police organization, including leadership strategies, stress management, and police community relations. Each of the book's 15 chapters includes an outline, key points, and a review. The book emphasizes the police manager as leader. At the center of this emphasis on leadership is community-oriented policing (COP). In turn, the book highlights COP as a value-added approach to police work, which leads to what the book describes as the core of leading others - human values. The book is divided into two sections: Leadership and Management. The Leadership section examines: Values, Ethics, and Vision; Communications; Team Leadership; Empowerment; Time Management; and Vitality. The Management section reviews Organizing; Community- and Problem-Oriented Policing; Budget; Politics; Unions; Problem Employees; and Intuition. The chapters on Team Leadership, Organizing, and Intuition are new with this edition. Notes, structured exercises, tables, figures, case studies, index

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