ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with translating intentions into success. It discusses the motivations for becoming a police manager. The chapter presents a simple model in which the police manager's philosophy—his or her values and beliefs—can be expressed in stated principles that guide behavior through decisions, routine activities, standards, policies, and procedures. When a person's ambition and career goals cause him or her to decide that pursuing a police manager's position is worth the challenges and difficulties, the person can then focus on how this ambition translates into management philosophy. Values are defined as the assumptions about ends worth striving to obtain. Values combined with beliefs can be developed into principles that can serve as standards for others concerning what is important in individual police agencies. A principle is a rule or code of conduct that policies, decisions, practices, and procedures should follow. Principles are developed by combining values and beliefs.
