Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform
This article investigates role ambiguity, discretion and job crafting among leaders and followers in change processes. Our findings are based on a sample of 464 police officers nested in 261 police leaders among 4495 respondents. We find that high discretion enables job crafting, where job crafting...
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| description | This article investigates role ambiguity, discretion and job crafting among leaders and followers in change processes. Our findings are based on a sample of 464 police officers nested in 261 police leaders among 4495 respondents. We find that high discretion enables job crafting, where job crafting directs police leaders and police officers to positively engage in change and hence to reduce role ambiguity. However, high discretion solely among police officers to ensure job crafting and the reduction of role ambiguity is not supported, and high discretion among both leaders and police officers is only partially supported. Instead, our main finding is that the leaderʼs discretion will moderate police officersʼ role ambiguity. The leaderʼs work discretion will also ensure that police officers approach job crafting through engagement and coping. Therefore, co-productions of change between the leaderʼs discretion and the followersʼ job crafting engagement will reduce role ambiguity in implementing change. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-50a8c97bd0e94025b010fb3d9924f32c2025-08-20T02:05:17ZengScandinavian University PressNordic Journal of Studies in Policing2703-70452023-11-0110111310.18261/njsp.10.1.11Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police ReformCathrine Filstad0Tom Karp1Ph.D., Kristiania University College and Norwegian Police University CollegeKristiania University CollegeThis article investigates role ambiguity, discretion and job crafting among leaders and followers in change processes. Our findings are based on a sample of 464 police officers nested in 261 police leaders among 4495 respondents. We find that high discretion enables job crafting, where job crafting directs police leaders and police officers to positively engage in change and hence to reduce role ambiguity. However, high discretion solely among police officers to ensure job crafting and the reduction of role ambiguity is not supported, and high discretion among both leaders and police officers is only partially supported. Instead, our main finding is that the leaderʼs discretion will moderate police officersʼ role ambiguity. The leaderʼs work discretion will also ensure that police officers approach job crafting through engagement and coping. Therefore, co-productions of change between the leaderʼs discretion and the followersʼ job crafting engagement will reduce role ambiguity in implementing change.https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/njsp.10.1.11police leadershippolice reformsdiscretionrole ambiguityjob crafting |
| spellingShingle | Cathrine Filstad Tom Karp Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing police leadership police reforms discretion role ambiguity job crafting |
| title | Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform |
| title_full | Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform |
| title_fullStr | Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform |
| title_full_unstemmed | Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform |
| title_short | Possible Co-productions of Change Among Police Leaders and Police Officers in the Norwegian Police Reform |
| title_sort | possible co productions of change among police leaders and police officers in the norwegian police reform |
| topic | police leadership police reforms discretion role ambiguity job crafting |
| url | https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/njsp.10.1.11 |
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