The Impact of Learning Organization Model on a Police Management

ISBN-13: 9783639129540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 144 str.

Habib Zdemir

Opis

This study examines the MANAGER (Management and Accountability through Geographic Review) management model of the Arlington (Texas) Police Department. The study shows that MANAGER has the ability to incorporate the facilitative elements of a learning organization. The institutional tools, crime statistics, crime maps, hot spots, and crime analysis, organizational design through geographic policing, and the periodic local and central meetings are major elements of MANAGER in building a learning organization. A multi-dimensional survey of the APDs organizational performance is another issue of this research. The researcher measured the contribution of MANAGER to the APDs performance through a quasi-experimental time-series designs. The results indicate that the MANAGER has not made a significant contribution to the APDs organizational performance except in moderately controlling crime and clearing the cases, and significantly reducing firearm use. This case study adds value to the enormous Compstat descriptive studies by exploring the contributions of the MANAGER, a Compstat-like program, to the organizational performance of the APD.

O autorze

Habib Ozdemir, Ph.D.1971, Turkey, police director with Turkish
National Police. He received his Master of Science degree from
Sam Houston State University-Criminal Justice Department (2005)
and Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at
Dallas (2008). Interest areas are police management, and social
recovery from terrorism.