Author(s):
Karl-Heinz Fittkau
Institution:
Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Title:
Leadership perception and augmentation effect – A study in the riot police in Berlin
Abstract:
Transformational leadership leads to an increased readiness to invest effort, to enhanced perceived leadership effectiveness and to greater employee satisfaction (augmentation effect). A large number of evidence exists to this effect, but hardly any findings from the police sector. The present study scrutinizes the phenomenon at the example of the riot police in Berlin. Using the Transformational Leadership Inventory for the scales of Transformational Leadership and the three augmentation scales from the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (German version, Felfe 2006), 195 members of the riot police were interviewed. The results confirm the augmentation effect, but they also suggest that the significance of transactional leadership must not be underestimated. Besides, pronounced levelling tendencies become apparent in the understanding of work and leadership between the careers of the middle and upper police service tiers.
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