IMPACT OF TRAINING ON SELF-DESCRIPTION AND CO-WORKER DESCRIPTION OF POLICE MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR

• NCJ Number: 32393
• Journal: American Journal of Community Psychology Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Dated: (DECEMBER 1975) Pages: 391-402
• Author(s): F W NEFF; B LUBIN; K MCCONNELL
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 12 pages
• Corporate Author: Plenum Publishing Corp
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

A FIVE-PHASED TRAINING ACTIVITY WAS CONDUCTED WITH 23 MIDWESTERN METROPOLITAN POLICE MANAGERS TO IMPART SKILLS IN INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP PROBLEM-SOLVING AND IN COMMUNICATIONS.

Abstract

SELF-DESCRIPTIONS OF MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR BY PARTICIPANTS GREW MORE FAVORABLE OVER TIME, INDICATING THEY REPORTED MORE BEHAVIOR REFLECTING THE GOALS OF TRAINING. CO-WORKERS, WHO WERE DESCRIBING THE MANAGERS IN TRAINING ON THE SAME ITEMS AS THE MANAGERS DESCRIBED THEMSELVES, INDICATED THAT THE MANAGERS WERE PERFORMING AT A RELATIVELY HIGH LEVEL THROUGHOUT THE TRAINING ACTIVITIES. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE APPEARED IN CO-WORKER DESCRIPTIONS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)