The Leadership Gap

Building Commitment and Buy-In from Frontline Law Enforcement and Public Safety Professionals

Paul Rinkoff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2025
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538196632 (ISBN)

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This book reveals purposeful, practical, and evidence-based leadership strategies to help law enforcement and public safety professionals motivate, inspire, and achieve goals with greater confidence. Readers will become versed in critical leadership activities, opportunities, attributes, styles, and perspectives.

In law enforcement and public safety, the Leadership Gap is the failure of leaders to build enough commitment and buy-in from those they lead to institute change and achieve intended outcomes. The leadership strategies in this book have been curated to help leaders identify existing leadership gaps in their organizations and take steps to reduce their size and impact. Each chapter contains proven, practical, and evidence-based leadership strategies conveyed through methods, activities, opportunities, and styles. Based on professional experience and academic research, this book is designed to help readers enact challenging leadership decisions in an ever-changing and complex public safety environment.

Dr. Paul Rinkoff is a proudly serving senior-level law enforcement official and evidence-based researcher in the fields of law enforcement and public safety. Paul’s extensive leadership experience spans multiple agencies and areas, including oversight of the training and professional development center of North America’s fourth largest municipal police service.

Introduction
Chapter One: Commitment, Buy-In, and the Leadership Gap
Chapter Two: Causes of the Leadership Gap and the Top-Down Approach
Chapter Three: How to Control the Leadership Gap and the Bottom-Up Approach
Chapter Four: Keep Investing in Frontline Leaders
Chapter Five: Know Your Leadership Style
Chapter Six: Transformational Law Enforcement Leaders
Chapter Seven: Community-Oriented Leadership and the Shortcomings of COP
Chapter Eight: Community-Oriented Leadership and Investing in COP
Chapter Nine: The Importance of Public Perception for Law Enforcement Leaders
Chapter 10: Evidence-Based Leadership Strategies—A Law Enforcement Case Study
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustration, 1 BW Photo
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-13	9781538196632 / 9781538196632
Zustand	Neuware