Organizational Behavior and Management in Law Enforcement (4^th Ed.)

For courses in police administration or organizational behavior, and as a reference for police managers or officers preparing for promotional exams.

An accessible guide to real-world police management
Organizational Behavior and Management in Law Enforcement provides a clear, concise blueprint for successful police administration and management. Drawing on decades of experience as practitioners, trainers, and researchers, the authors focus on organizational behavior as a means of understanding both the complexity of the criminal justice system and interactions between officers and managers as they work to resolve community problems. With substantial content revisions and new learning objectives, the 4th edition integrates new research into an organizational behavioral approach to police management and demonstrates the relationship between research and its applications in the field.

1. Dynamics of Management: Managers and Organizational Behavior
2. Leadership: The Integrative Variable
3. Personality: Understanding the Complexity of Human Behavior in the Organization
4. Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes: Determinants of Human Behavior
5. Motivation: The Force Behind Behavior
6. Stress in Organizational Life: Its Nature, Causes, and Control
7. Conflict: Nature, Causes, and Management
8. Decision-Making: The Essential Element in Applied Management
9. Power: Its Nature and Use
10. Communication: The Vital Process
11. Groups And Teamwork: Human Dynamics at Work
12. Change: Coping with Organizational Life

Gennaro F. Vito is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. He also serves as a faculty member in the Administrative Officer’s Course at the Southern Police Institute. He holds a PhD in public administration from The Ohio State University. Active in professional organizations, he is a past president, fellow, and recipient of the Bruce Smith Award (2012) of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He served as the editor of The American Journal of Criminal Justice (1987—1991). The University of Louisville also awarded him the Dean’s Outstanding Performance Award for Research in the former College of Urban and Public Affairs (1990), the same award for the College of Arts and Sciences (2002), the President’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2002), and the Distinguished University Scholar Award (2008). He has published more than 100 professional refereed journal articles (in such journals as Criminology, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Police Quarterly, and The Prison Journal), 18 book chapters, 8 book reviews, and 43 technical research reports. He has published on such topics as capital sentencing, police consolidation, police leadership, police traffic stops, policing strategies for drug problems in public housing, attitudes toward capital punishment, and the effectiveness of criminal justice programs, such as drug elimination programs, drug courts, and drug testing of probationers and parolees. He is the coauthor of 11 textbooks in criminal justice and criminology, including Police Leadership and Administration: A 21st Century Strategic Approach (Elsevier, 2018).

John C. Reed is Associate Director of the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. He also serves as a faculty member in the Administrative Officer’s Course. He assists the director with operational and administrative over