A patrol officer works 40 hours a week, of which at least 10-15 hours are legitimately spent on muster, checking the car and equipment, personal breaks, and turning in gear and paperwork. That leaves about 25-30 hours a week to response for calls for service, observe traffic, and interact with citizens. A particlular patrol officer has worked 4 weeks in a patrol zone without writing a single traffic ticket or making any arrests, or conducting any field interviews. He has zeros in those statistical categories. <\/p>\n
What organizational theory would say that his lack of enforcement actions indicates a poorly performing officer? What category would this patrol officer fall according to Chris Argyris Immaturity-Maturity theory? How would a Theory X manager characterize this officer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A patrol officer works 40 hours a week, of which at least 10-15 hours are legitimately spent on muster, checking the car and equipment, personal breaks, and turning in gear and paperwork. That leaves about 25-30 hours a week to Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}