Problems of Forming Organizational and Management Competence of Middle-Level Managers in the National Police of Ukraine
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Abstract. The formation of a management unit within the structure of the National Police of Ukraine was and remains an urgent challenge and one of the important directions of law enforcement reform. The urgency of the problem has significantly increased in connection with the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against our state and the corresponding dynamism of the personnel and management of the NPU in the context of ensuring state security and public order. This is precisely why it is so important to conduct thorough research and practically oriented work to determine the factors of formation of a modern police manager, taking into account effective foreign experience. The main attention is paid to the theoretical and compilative analysis of scientific achievements and experimental research into the personality of the middle-level police manager as a defining structural unit of police management. The research tools were provided by the use of questionnaires proposed by Canadian scientists, which have proven effective in determining the factors of formation of a mid-level police department manager, some determinants of managerial behavior. Based on data from domestic and foreign research, a comparative analysis of the results was carried out, and the similarity and differentiation of the respondents’ answers regarding the problems under study were established. Similarity of judgments of domestic and foreign middle managers surveyed was revealed mainly regarding the basic characteristics of the manager’s personality, while most of the differences in the answers were registered regarding the features of managerial behavior. This is explained by differences in the organization of managerial activities, the unification of the understanding of professionally important qualities inherent in the head of a police structural unit. Taking into account the results of the study will contribute to improving professional selection for management positions in the National Police, the activities of departmental educational and advanced training institutions, psychological services in the formation of police management, and the formation of a competent middle manager.
Keywords: management; police management; competence; professionally important factors; professional experience; questionnaire.
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