The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the types of middle manager's leadership and police officers' empowerment level in police organizations. This paper, which demonstrates the positive profiles of middle manager's leadersh...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the types of middle manager's leadership and police officers' empowerment level in police organizations. This paper, which demonstrates the positive profiles of middle manager's leadership to enhance police officers' empowerment level, suggests several implications.
For this purpose, this study, in chapter 2, reviewed theoretical backgrounds and literatures on Leadership style, Empowerment, Organization characteristic and Individual characteristic. In chapter 3, the research model and hypothesis were provided. Then, chapter 4 was analysis part.
The methodology used in this study is based largely on the leadership style of Bass B. M. and Empowerment theory of Spreizer G. M. 560 police officers from korea was selected as subjects and 462 police officers among them responded to the survey and used 415 police officers' response in actual analysis. Here, statistical techniques such as step wise multiple regression, t-test, anova and path analysis are used in data-processing with SPSS for Windows 14.0.
The major findings are as follows :
First, this study shows, in according to the positive effect of the police middle manager's leadership style to follower's empowerment, both the leadership styles have the positive effect on the empowerment. Only management by exception among the transactional leadership has less effect on than other facts.
Second, the conclusion of this study, accordingly, is the fact that Organization characteristic and Individual characteristic have done a mediating role between leadership(the transformational leadership and transactional leadership) and empowerment. The special point is the fact that most factors have positive effects, on the contrary, have negative effects in the relationship to boss.
Third, the transformational leadership has more positive influences on the empowerment than the transactional leadership. But this study shows, in the impact empowerment among the subordinate factors of empowerment, both the styles of empowerment have the same effect.
Based on the findings, there are several implications for police administration to improve police officers' empowerment :
First, the middle manager should develop transformational leadership centered on police officers. It was attributed to the finding, which revealed transformational leadership has a strong positive effect on empowerment of police officers. Therefore middle managers should consider more highly each staff's future vision, intellectual stimulation than the past bureaucratic management style.
Second, first of all, the systematic effort should be settled to develop the middle manager's leadership in organization. The members of the organizations should change their perspectives or way of thinking through the programs which are designed to develop the proper leadership style.
Third, middle managers should empower themselves beforehand to empower line police officers. Middle managers would play an important role in agencies to motivate line police officers and they could be a role model with their expertise on profession.
And middle managers themselves should enhance their study-ability to give the pride of the jop-carry ability to the police officers.
Finally, between the organization characteristic and the individual characteristic, this study shows that the needs for achievement, self-respect and relationship to colleagues have the mediation effect. Namely, the needs for achievement could have an important effect on the police officer's empowerment level. Hence, the police organization could assess the individual characteristics of police officers and help them to enhance positive factors revealed.
Critical point and the detection of stand forward - we research that empowerment is the subject in processing as regarded. So, we could not consider the organization efficiency, job satisfaction, perception and attitude of oneself after empowering. We are needed the study model through the agency of empowerment between organization and individual. Second, the cooperation would take a proper steps to empower the organization members through the systematic course and techniques. Finally, through the comparative investigation between the transformational leadership and the transactional leadership, it is needed what type of leadership is more effective in a certain circumstance and organization.