ABSTRACT
In Chapter 8, we discussed individuals and groups in the police organization, with an eye on understanding individual and group behavior better. In this chapter, our attention shifts more toward the police manager’s job-seeing to it that individuals develop professionally and that the whole organizational system develops in a healthy and productive way. Individual professional development in policing includes education, training, mentoring, and career enhancement. Organizational development focuses on how the organization in its entirety can become stronger, more competent, more resilient and, ultimately, more successful over time. Both of these sets of considerations, individual and organizational, tend to be based on theories of work motivation and on strategies aimed at making employees more motivated to work hard on behalf of the organization.
