Factors of trust in immediate leaders : an empirical study in police service environment

Tomaževič, Nina (author), Aristovnik, Aleksander (author)

The study has two objectives-first, to examine the dimensionality of police service employees' job satisfaction and their assessment of the enablers from the Common Assessment Framework, analyzing these facets at different organizational levels, and second, to identify the impact of selected facets of job satisfaction on trust in one's immediate leader. The study is based on a comprehensive on-line questionnaire where 1209 responses from police service employees were acquired, and for the data analysis, factor analysis was first used to formulate the factors of job satisfaction facets and of the Common Assessment Framework enablers. Second, structural equation modelling was performed to identify the correlations of the studied variables. The Common Assessment Framework enabler Strategy/Leadership was significantly correlated with the enabler Processes and had an indirect impact on Trust through direct impacts on Leadership style in the organizational unit and Autonomy/Tasks. Both of the latter determinants had a significant influence on Trust in one's immediate leader. The confirmed the impact of determinants from dfferent hierarchical levels indicates the importance of efforts by managers at all organizational levels should the police management intend to achieve and maintain high levels of trust in one's immediate leader in police service work environment.

• Language: English
• Keywords: trust, job satisfaction, leadership, police, healthy work environment
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: 17 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 16, iss. 14, art. 2525
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125572
• UDC: 331.101.32:351.74
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16142525
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5332398
• Publication date in RUL: 26.03.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Shortened title: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1660-4601
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1818965

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 26.03.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: zadovoljstvo pri delu, vodstvo, policija, zdravo delovno okolje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: V5-1037
• Name: Vzpostavitev sistema merjenja učinkovitosti, uspešnosti in kakovosti v slovenski policiji

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Slovenia
• Project number: V5-1037