의경부대 리더십에 대한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to present directions and skills of leadership appropriate for characteristics of new-generation policemen of auxiliary police units. The new-generation auxiliary policemen as the subjects of this study grew in surroundings of nuclear family, material affluence, and information & technology centric society. Their characteristics include creative tendency, rationalistic propensity, active attitude, distrust of something existing, personality-centered & egotistic inclination, and deficiency in strength and patience. In order to identify leadership appropriate for the new-generation auxiliary policemen with such characteristics, the authors of this study considered concepts and functions of leadership and examined specificity of police administration and classification theory of leadership types as the subjects are auxiliary policemen. Then, based on the basic consideration, the authors established hypotheses of leadership types preferred by next-generation auxiliary policemen on the basis of the three tendencies of leaders including job-orientation, relationship-orientation, and future-orientation. The hypotheses were verified via a survey. The results of this study may indicate that leaders appropriate for the new-generation auxiliary policemen should be able to arouse sympathy of the policemen by fulfilling leadership of job-oriented, relationship-oriented, and future-oriented and using leadership types appropriate for sets of the policemen that are subdivided by each characteristic.