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Debra Edwards

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Daft (2013) maintains that the government and the public hold establishments, such as police departments to high ethical and professional standards. Police departments’ hierarchal structure must incorporate into their practices the assessment of police officers from an organizational behavior premise. Organizational behavior assesses concepts such as motivation, leadership style, and personality and is concerned with cognitive and emotional differences among people within organizations (Daft, 2013). I believe that the finding from the study below is an excellent tool for police headquarters to use for training and assessment.

Klenowski (2012, p. 46-77) study reveals that most people begin learning behaviors during the early phases of cognitive development. Therefore, it is safe to assume that by the time a person enters the workforce, he or she has already learned a basic set of influences that they refer to prior to conducting any behavior, including unethical or criminal acts. This cultural diffusion of learned acts can also be learned through interactions with others, and also from a person’s work subculture. The argument that can be made is that employees are socialized into the culture of their particular organization; and they learn skills, and even criminal behavior on the job. Furthermore, part of this socialization process involves learning how to filter deviant acts “through a philosophical prism, which gives them the appearance of not being criminal.” Once police departments’ behaviors are understood, different means of offsetting them before they lead to a criminal act is crucial. Workshops or seminars that introduce ‘‘techniques of resolve’’ that focus on potential consequences of white-collar crime may be helpful as a constraint for potential offenders (Klenowski, 2012).

Ling and Rhodes (2014, p. 50-66) assert that equality based on “who you are” in the United States allows the protection of rights to be heightened by personal wealth and status, and protection have been noted to be compromised by the lack wealth and status. By contrast, the Chinese style of equality is equal opportunity at its core. The Chinese system pays particular attention to the underprivileged. It is mindful that those with more stature and wealth could take advantage of their position, causing undue harm to those in a disadvantaged position.

It is imperative that the hierarchal chain of police divisions assess for any underlying biases within each employee and deal with it from a developmental training perspective. Daft (2013) emphasizes that companies invest in each employee to development them to reach their full potential.

References

Daft, R. (2013). Organizational theory and design (11th ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning

Klenowski, P. (2014). Learning the good with the bad: Are occupational white-collar offenders         taught how to neutralize their crimes? Criminal Justice Review 37(4) 461-477. Retrieved         from http://www.cjr.sagepub.com.exproxy.liberty.edu:2048/content/37/4/461