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Law Enforcement and Corrections

Lynn University

2008

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Police Chiefs' Use And Executive Subordinates' Perceived Use Of Non-Performance And Performance Based Criteria In Promotional Decisions: Organizational Mobility Channels, Bill D. Press Aug 2008

Police Chiefs' Use And Executive Subordinates' Perceived Use Of Non-Performance And Performance Based Criteria In Promotional Decisions: Organizational Mobility Channels, Bill D. Press

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The purpose of this study was to investigate police promotion and channels of mobility from an "appointed perspective" by those who do the appointments, as well as those chosen for the appointment. There were two ultimate goals of this study. The first was to describe the characteristics of police chiefs and subordinate police executives, and the importance of non-performance based criteria and performance based criteria used in promotion decision making by police chiefs and perceptions of use by subordinate police executives. The second was to extend the intra-organizational mobility model developed by Beehr and Taber (1993), with four additional non-performance …