The Role of Organizational Culture and Climate for Well-Being among Police Custody Personnel: A Multilevel Examination
Journal article
Authors | Christopher Werner-de-Sondberg, Maria Karanika-Murray, Thom Baguley and Nicholas Blagden |
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Abstract | United Kingdom Police custody is one of the most challenging of work environments, liable to excessive demands and reduced well-being. Being difficult to access, it is also a much-neglected area of research that has focused on one or two roles, rather than the full range available, and on individual-level research, rather than a more comprehensive multilevel understanding of how organizational culture and climate can simultaneously influence a range of well-being outcomes. The present longitudinal study explored all types of roles, in both the public and private sectors, across seven English police forces and 26 custody sites (N = 333, response rate 46.57%, with repeated returns = 370). The Integrated Multilevel Model of Organizational Culture and Climate (IMMOCC) was applied to examine the organizational-level influences on individual well-being. Results indicated that (1) custody sergeants were most vulnerable to low well-being, followed by publicly contracted detention officers; (2) shared leadership (a source of team cohesion) was linked to four of six well-being outcomes; (3) two sub-components of culture reflected tensions never acknowledged before, especially in respect of role; and (4) reverse relationships existed between well-being outcomes and the dimensions of culture and climate. The findings inform practical recommendations, including resilience training and the need to raise the status of police custody, while also highlighting concerns about private sector scrutiny that may be relevant to other professions. |
Keywords | Multilevel analysis; Organization culture and climate; UK police custody; Well-being |
Year | 2021 |
Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
Journal citation | Vol 18 (Issue 12, Article number 6369) |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
ISSN | 1660-4601 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126369 |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126369 |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | 11 Jun 2021 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 07 Jun 2021 |
Deposited | 24 May 2023 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9yy25/the-role-of-organizational-culture-and-climate-for-well-being-among-police-custody-personnel-a-multilevel-examination
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