{"product_id":"the-bottom-line-a-management-primer-for-first-line-law-enforcement-supervisors-9781942899822","title":"The Bottom Line - A management primer for first line law enforcement supervisors","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most important position in any management hierarchy is the first line supervisor. It's where the rubber meets the road for ensuring an organization's mission gets done as expected. And yet, it is the position least likely to receive any management training when it's needed most. While some may get nominal experience in relief supervisory assignments, most don't get the opportunity to truly learn and reflect on the proper approach to - and relationship with - the position they will occupy. This should happen before functional duties take command of their time and attention. Many bring former interpersonal habits and reasoning power into their new position. Rules, regulations, and standard operating procedures often dominate a new manager's attention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book provides a reality-based introduction to issues newly promoted law enforcement supervisors should know sooner rather than later. It explains the role interpersonal skills and orientation play in management success. \u003cem\u003eAny leader's influence is sustainable to the extent subordinates are willing to let it effect them. \u003c\/em\u003eWhile much is written about management expectations of subordinates, role also involves recognizing and meeting basic subordinate expectations, too. It helps set the right interpersonal tone and tenor for effectively managing others. It also builds a strong foundation from which to coach and counsel them the right way. A properly fulfilled role also helps lessen the potential for personnel problems and strengthens any official action when needed to address one.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the reader to become familiar with a decision making \u003cem\u003ebottom line\u003c\/em\u003e before having to deal with crisis and controversy. \u003cem\u003eA bottom line is the moral boundary that should never be crossed.\u003c\/em\u003e It is the line in the sand that prepares one to lose the deal, a friendship, allow someone guilty to go free, even damage your cause, for the sake of protecting personal integrity, and what will likely be everyone's longer term best interest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are too many examples of managers and subordinates alike who help or abet others doing wrong in the name of loyalty and friendship that has them later lamenting, \"I wish I hadn't said or done that.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThat's because so much of law enforcement service involves emotionally charged interactions. This reality raises the bar for loyalty and friendship when actions are revisited or adjudicated by lawful oversight authority. It can compel a choice between honesty, loyalty and friendship, in ways no other occupation demands with such direct and damaging consequences. In other words, how to avoid surpassing what one later finds should have been their \u003cem\u003ebottom line\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll of this is important for maintaining a professional workplace when dealing with issues unique to law enforcement, i.e., overreaction, informants, officer involved crime scenes, the public trust, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA professional work environment can exist anywhere, from the precinct station on the meanest street, up to and yet noticeably absent in the plush and pristine corporate office. That's because management sets the tone and tenor of all workplace activity. The keys to a manager's success require understanding one's proper role, knowing his or her moral boundaries, and employing the interpersonal and functional skills that help maintain a professional work environment regardless of its unique circumstances and the challenges it must face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeister, Arthur P.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Arthur Meister served four years in the United States Air Force Police, ten years with the Connecticut State Police, and twenty-four years with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an investigative and supervisory special agent. He rose to become Chief of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), a behavioral crime analysis and threat assessment service available to all law enforcement agencies. He then became Chief of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), a national behavior based computer program for identifying and tracking serial murder. In 2000, as Chief of ViCap, he was selected a ComputerWorld\/Smithsonian Laureate for Historic Innovation in Government and Non-profit Organizations. During an assignment to the Management Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he taught college accredited management courses to police managers attending the FBI's National Academy. He was also the Program Manager for mandatory management training of FBI supervisors. In retirement he consults on workplace violence and managing problem employees. He has published numerous articles and editorials on law enforcement matters. Mr. Meister has a Masters of Public Administration from the University of New Haven, Connecticut, and a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy from the University of Southern California. He is an alumnus of the FBI's Executive Development Institute.","brand":"Arthur P Meister","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580292301074,"sku":"9781942899822","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_529e14c5-a729-4d1a-940d-552638f16727.jpg?v=1756215237","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bottom-line-a-management-primer-for-first-line-law-enforcement-supervisors-9781942899822","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}