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This 6-page paper focuses on leading groups in a police force, and what types of leadership behaviors will help in this endeavor. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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styles, and how leaders can (and should) influence groups. Most of these styles are analyzed in the context of an organizational setting and organizational goals.
But what happens when an organizational setting brings its share of dangers on a daily basis? What happens when the organizational goals involving serving a community, and ensuring
that the community is kept safe from danger? Does group leadership need to change under these circumstances? In this paper well examine group
leadership as it pertains to a police force. Well find that most leadership attributes similar to a police force as it would be to any other organization, despite the dangers
that this force faces. Leadership Theories and Groups Though leadership as a social scenario dates back thousands of millennia, it was in
1990 when Bass pointed out that definitions of leadership are many. Despite the vast list of leadership types he provided, Bass noted commonalities unifying these varieties. He wrote that leadership
concerns the influencing of groups and persuading them through "personality, power, persuasion and behavior" (Bass, 1990; see also Schafer, 2009). In police
departments (and elsewhere, for that matter), leaders are "expected to be competent managers who inspire their followers to do effective work in the pursuit of organisational goals" (Vito and Higgins,
2010; p. 306). Furthermore, leaders who are in charge of groups are expected to rise above their own interests for the sake of the group, and organizational goals and values
and to ensure that the group shares his or her vision when it comes to the organization (Vito and Higgins, 2010). Lack
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