Evaluation of the effects of shift work assignment: A survey of motivation in police officers
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Title
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Evaluation of the effects of shift work assignment: A survey of motivation in police officers
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:10cbfe6b88c9:10613
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identifier
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10818
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Creator
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Kroll, Rainer,
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Contributor
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Maria Haberfeld
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Date
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2010
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Criminology | Labor relations | Organizational behavior | Civil Service | Criminal Justice | Motivation | Shift work
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Abstract
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The detrimental health effects of a varied shift schedule on personnel were researched extensively. In fact, the culmination of this work was substantive policy changes, especially within the law enforcement field. While these policy changes were sound in principal, the implementation of invariable shift assignments to meet organizational requirements and the subsequent impact on personnel was documented less frequently. There was little research on employee motivation as a consequence of shift assignments. Partly a consequence of the implementation of organizational mandates with little regard for employee welfare, it was this employee/organization nexus that was inherently important to personal and organizational success. This relationship between employee motivation and shift assignments needed to be researched, and was the focus of this proposal.;A Motivation Index, comprised of the various survey questions grouped together according to a specific factor, was created to allow analysis of specific effects of shift assignments on the employee's motivation. These factors were based on external-personal and internal-institutional variables. The analysis began with descriptive statistics of the data---mean, median, mode, range, minimum, maximum, standard deviation, bar chart, histogram, and significant correlations were presented. Additional analysis was conducted using principal components analysis, used to help reduce the data to outline patterns of relationships between the survey questions. These results were used to identify which clusters of variables shared variance and were considered most important to the survey respondent.;The purpose of the analysis was twofold---to identify which factors were most meaningful to the survey respondent, and to incorporate these results into policy development in organizational behavior, specifically within the law enforcement community.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Criminal Justice
