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Motivation and Rewarding of Police Officers – Analysis of Preferences of Police College Students Applying the Total Rewards Model
Maja Klindžić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7199-9542
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Ekonomski fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Dina Šlibar
Sažetak
The paper analyzes the concept of the total rewards model and its application in the police service. Namely, as budget users are increasingly stimulated to implement modern trends in the management of their organizations and their employees, and taking into account the fact that motivation to work often stands out as one of the main problems of the public sector, we conducted a study among Police academy students and analyzed their preferences towards various tangible and intangible forms of motivation and rewarding. The results of empirical research showed that respondents are predominantly motivated by relational rewards or higher order needs, such as education and development, but also the work environment where job design is extremely important to them, and a pleasant work atmosphere that is often observed through communication with their colleagues and superiors. As for the transactional rewards, the basic salary and overtime work that meet the existential needs, as well as the benefited length of service and job security that meet the security needs, are what is important to police officers for work motivation. There were differences detected in attaching the importance to individual motivators with regard to socio-demographic characteristics, i.e. gender, age and police rank, were also detected. At the end of the paper, recommendations for creating a reward system that would result in greater work motivation of police officers are discussed.
Ključne riječi
police service; police officers; total rewards model; work motivation; rewarding in the public sector
Hrčak ID:
265202
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Datum izdavanja:
28.10.2021.
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