Focuses on police organizations and procedures, politics, and human relations issues police supervisors and administrators must understand in order to succeed. Reviews the evolution of American policing, the organization and the leader, the management of police organizations, and modern organizational issues. This course will prepare students for a lifetime of learning and instill knowledge and attitudes necessary for their personal development and reasoned responses to demands within the criminal justice system. The course will also help prepare students for future leadership roles in administrative roles through the incorporation of Missional University's vision, mission, and biblical perspectives.
Students in the criminal justice system need to have training in the role of police administration due to the professionalism of the career. From entry-level positions to higher roles in a department, change can be made with proper skillsets and education. This course will help aid students in the future by preparing them with the knowledge to help progressively develop leadership skills and practical information to further their careers in police administration.
This course will provide a foundation for students to progressively rethink leadership and organizational impacts. Also, this course will allow the student to dive deep into concepts of police administration and discover the various but related positions that currently exist in order to explore future professional obtainment. Finally, the rationale of this course will be to help the student foresee issues in organizations and cultures to help offset problems before they become infectious.
Providing positive leadership in a police department is a skill set that is needed in contemporary times. This course will help aid students to lead with a biblical mindset through the incorporation and application of scripture into their assignments.
The missional perspective of this course will be to isolate, discuss, and conceptualize the impacts of different leadership styles, administrative roles, and how this affects individual productivity. Negative and positive leadership have contagious effects on an organization and its culture. The goal of this course is to discuss and provide an analysis of different styles of leadership, its role in an organization, and provide insight into how the culture of an organization can be effected.
This course will contextualize biblical perspectives to help isolate and analyze how leaders can use scripture to help guide decisions, choices in leadership utilization, processes, and how to handle conflict within an organization. This course will also help aid students in the development of skills to handle everyday confinements of performing in different roles within this type of para-military environment.
Organizations, like society, are diverse and complex. Therefore, individuals will have varying differences, and different roles and leadership styles either enhance or negate the productivity of the organization and its culture.
The practical knowledge gained throughout this course is critical to the success of the student from the early to the late stages of one's career. Organizational change and culture is not only an administrative responsibility. Everyone within an organization is capable of creating positive change and can have impacts in the workplace.
Students will be asked to demonstrate knowledge through critical thinking skills and propose changes, define different aspects of leadership, analyze organizational culture and roles, and discuss how synergistic relationships exist within an organization and police department.
