Paper Topic:

Police `Case Study`

Motivation Control -1

Motivation Control : The Police Supervisor 's Dilemma

Criminology

April 25 , 2009

Introduction

The case study discusses about a case where a Command staff is trying to motivate his subordinates . In the process of motivation he strategises few ideas and implements it with an intention of making his subordinates take up the task seriously . The task was taken seriously by the subordinates perhaps the task was not assumed in the right sense as they all considered it a rule passed on to them . They imagined the Command

staff to be very strict and hard towards them as he formulated few rules . Towards the end of the performance appraisal the subordinates scored well as they maintained a day to day record of their achievements , however it did not last long as they decided to go to the higher authority with the complaint that they were treated hard

Few decided to stay away from the command staff and few requested transfer , the harmony among the troop was lost . The case study is all about how to draw a demarcation line between rules and motivation strategies (supervisory routines as mentioned in the case study . The million dollar question is was the command staff right in his decision if he is right why did it backfire ? The intention of the Command staff was good but still there was a communication gap which misguided the strategy implemented among the subordinates

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