Scenarios: Bad Behavior and The Difficult Employee

Running head : Bad Behavior and the Difficult Employee

Title : Human Resource Issues

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Bad Behavior and The Difficult Employee

Scenario 1

Officer Stevens , the Sergeant on the evening shift , reported to you (the shift lieutenant ) that after roll call he heard two male officers telling sexually explicit jokes in the hallway . As the Sergeant exited the roll call room he noticed one of the female dispatchers standing within a few feet of the two officers . The Sergeant chose to ignore the immediate

situation and just made a report to you

Excellent leadership and personality skills are very vital qualities among police officers . If a sergeant is not careful with their reactions towards their juniors , they are bound to encourage bad behavior within police units (Wagen , 2006 . It is important for one to take an authoritative stance in solving problems of discipline in their units to avoid propagating irresponsibility and bad behavior

1 . Evaluate the sergeant 's responses to the scenarios

Officer Stevens - who was on duty taking the roll call in the evening - chose to ignore the situation and instead reported it to the senior supervisor after noticing bad behavior among the police officers Generally , it is expected that the sergeant would have take immediate action in disciplining the badly behaved officers (Schroeder Lombardo 2003 . Steven 's decision to ignore the misbehavior would however have been the better option at the moment . Nevertheless , the sergeant is supposed to have taken some details concerning the offending officers...