Identifying the antecedents of work-role overload in police organizations

This paper describes a three-phase multi-method research initiative to develop and validate measures used to quantify sources of work-role overload in policing. Phase I used qualitative techniques to generate items that predicted work-role overload in policing. These items were used to construct the...

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Main Author: Duxbury, Linda 1962- (Author)
Contributors: Higgins, Christopher Alan 1949- ; Halinski, Michael
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 361-381
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Antecedents
Law Enforcement
Measure
Police
work-role overload
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Summary:This paper describes a three-phase multi-method research initiative to develop and validate measures used to quantify sources of work-role overload in policing. Phase I used qualitative techniques to generate items that predicted work-role overload in policing. These items were used to construct the initial measure and then tested (Phase II) using a sample of 202 police officers from one organization. Phase III tested the unidimensionality, validity, and reliability of the five measures identified in Phase II using a larger survey of 2,755 sworn officers working in 25 police organizations. Exploratory factor analysis identified and confirmatory factor analysis validated five antecedents to work-role overload in policing: competing demands, the court system, pressures to perform work outside one?s mandate, understaffing, and a nonsupportive organizational culture.
ISSN:1552-3594
DOI:10.1177/0093854814551017