The role of organizational culture and climate for well-being among police custody personnel: a multilevel examination

Werner-de-Sondberg, CRM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-0303, Karanika-Murray, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4141-3747, Baguley, T ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0477-2492 and Blagden, N ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4037-0984, 2021. The role of organizational culture and climate for well-being among police custody personnel: a multilevel examination. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (12): 6369. ISSN 1661-7827

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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.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Creators:	Werner-de-Sondberg, C.R.M., Karanika-Murray, M., Baguley, T. and Blagden, N.
Publisher:	MDPI AG
Date:	2021
Volume:	18
Number:	12
ISSN:	1661-7827
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.3390/ijerph18126369 DOI 1445399 Other
Rights:	Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	14 Jun 2021 13:41
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2021 13:41
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/43057

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