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Behaviour and leadership in law enforcement officers
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Topic: behaviour and leadership in law enforcement officers.
Is ethical behaviour and leadership a challenge to law enforcement officers or better known as the police? Ethical behaviour is the code of conduct that dictates good morals in an individual while leadership is the ability of one to influence the decisions of others and have them follow your ideas. The first and most prominent task of any law enforcer is to maintain order in the society and as well as ensure that people do not violate the law.
Law enforcement agency executives are accountable to their communities, their political leaders and their employees for stirring leadership and management (Anne, 2003). This poses as a great challenge for law enforcement officer since today’s demanding society requires leaders to sustain and meet these demands in order to be effective.
Success requires effective leadership skills that are required in management of police officers (Pfeifer, 2003). They must develop an efficient management system that will allow deliverance of quality services; also, they are required to select proper front line staffs to deliver quality policing services which require the top manager to have specific skills, training and education to do so. Ethical behaviour among the top officials is of great significance as subordinates look up to them and their behaviour reflects on that of their leader.
The ability to run an agency such that it is both internally and externally effective requires a leader to ensure that the employees and staff are competent and exercise good behaviour (Pfeifer, 2003). This sometimes is not easy for officers at the top since they are not able to monitor everyone in the department.
For employees to be motivated leaders need to create a fun and exciting place of work; leaders are required to maintain the culture of the police force so as to maintain great performance in their employees.
Law enforcement officers face challenges as their line of work requires commitment; with the many demands the occupation faces ethical behaviour and leadership of high quality needs to be maintained. This poses as a challenge to the officers.
Pfeifer, J., & Owens, K. (2003). Police Leadership and Ethics: Training and Policy Recommendations. Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services ,1(2), 0.
Anne Mills, (2003) “Ethical decision making and policing – the challenge for police leadership”, Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 10 Iss: 4, pp.331 – 335
A LETTER TO A FRIEND FROM ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
A LETTER TO A FRIEND FROM ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
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Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings and I believe you are doing okay.
I am writing to inform you of the progress and experiences I have been advocating and fighting for women’s rights during the period. First of all, I must agree that it has not been comfortable with the male chauvinism and patriarchy showing up in every place I tried to bring equality and equity between the two genders.
My childhood experiences were not favourable as a female, and I began seeing women looked down upon from a very early age. I was born in Johnstown in New York on 12th 1815. My father was a lawyer, and I gained a lot from his work of being a lawyer. I graduated from a female seminary in 1832. Even though I had a strong feeling and belief that women had not been given an equal place with men, I did not have a platform to air my view till I started visiting my cousin Gerrit Smith. In his home area, I learned about women’s rights movements, and I got attracted to them. Learning about this was the beginning of my journey I the fight for the rights of women.
In my schooling, I could early see a distinction between female students and male students. I could see how male students were always the leaders in the student body. The school and especially the female seminary also got me to know how the bible and other religious books and beliefs can be used and have been used to look down upon women.
In 1840, I got married to reformer Henry Stanton, and during the wedding, I had to omit the word obey in the vows. I skipped it because I did not feel the need to follow him. After all, if it is a home, there should be mutual responsibility, and he should not be the head, but our collaboration should make sure the family is okay. I escorted my husband to the world’s anti-slavery convention immediately after our wedding. It was part of my ambition to make sure the men who had excluded themselves from the tradition heard our voices from the outside. Therefore I was there to join the other women to make our voices heard in the convention.
After the convention, we returned to America, and we had seven children in whom I tried to instil into them that men and women are the same and equal. We settled in Seneca Falls, where we had our family and raised our children as my husband continued with his law practice and furthered his studies.
I planned the Seneca Falls convention, which happened in July 1848, with the help of Lucretia Mott. Seneca Falls way was one of my most outstanding achievements as it made me voice my concerns about women’s rights in a transparent manner. It also had a lot of positive impact concerning the rights of women at that time. Seneca Falls convention was one of my best times as we pushed for women to vote.
During the civil war, I focused on abolishing slavery but later, I got into promoting women’s rights. In the year 1868, I worked with Anthony of the revolution, a weekly militant paper, and it had a positive impact on promoting women’s rights. In 1869 the two of us Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and I held the president’s position until 1890. In 1890 we also merged with another group, and we formed the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which I served as the president for two years.
It was a journey characterized by challenges and several issues. Still, I managed to live through it all and fought for women’s rights, which I have always been fond of preaching and informing the world that men and women are not different as some people teach.
Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Behaviorism in everyday life
Behaviorism in everyday life
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Behaviorism in everyday life
Behaviorism is a holistic concept of development that pervades our everyday lives. It is based on the premise that our environmental experiences may shape us and create the person we are today (Baum, 2017). Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner concentrated their efforts on behaviorism and its consequences. However, I’d want to focus on Skinner’s operant conditioning theory of learning in this situation.
Sharing an apartment with three other students can get rather hectic as a sophomore. The garbage accumulates, the restroom is filthy, and your food is “accidentally” eaten. Our primary source of contention, though, was the dirty kitchen. The sink was constantly clogged with dishes. While I always washed and placed my dishes in the dishwasher, it seemed as if two of my other housemates preferred to dump their dirty dishes in the sink and wait a week. Without someone to clean the dishes, the pile would continue to grow. Each time I entered the kitchen, I grimaced and cleaned the dishes by myself. As a test, I stopped washing the dishes and waited for one of them to do it independently. When one of them finally did it, I staged a great impression. I expressed my gratitude and was amazed at how “clean” the kitchen had become.
It wasn’t long before my housemates realized the importance and began taking up their slack. I was astonished at how effortlessly I could get them to pick up after themselves without scolding or uncomfortably pointing it out. I was able to keep a clean kitchen and maintain excellent relationships with my housemates simply by employing positive reinforcement. By praising their positive actions and ignoring their negative ones, I increased their positive behaviors without creating enmity. It’s a basic concept, but it may reveal a great deal about the human brain and how it operates when implemented well.
When an antecedent stimulus reinforces an organism’s future activity, it is called reinforcement. Reinforcement theory uses a combination of rewards and punishments to promote or deter desired behaviour (Muhajirah, 2020). Operant behaviour is any action that affects when a person works on their surroundings. Positive reinforcement, such as complimenting my roommate on a job well done, is the most driving factor. I frequently prefer positive to negative reinforcement since it does not involve taking away or adding a negative consequence. Encouraging acts is much easier than discouraging them, making positive reinforcement a more effective tool than punishment in most cases (Baum, 2017). I praised my roommates for washing the dishes, which encouraged their inclination to do so.
References
Baum, W. M. (2017). Understanding behaviorism: Behavior, culture, and evolution. John Wiley & Sons.
Muhajirah, M. (2020). Basic of Learning Theory:(Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, and Humanism). International Journal of Asian Education, 1(1), 37-42.