Great expectations: The rhetoric and reality of police officers’ job expectations, satisfaction, engagement, and turnover intentions
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Grant, K., Philp, B., & Backhaus, C. (2025, October 28-30). Great expectations: The rhetoric and reality of police officers’ job expectations, satisfaction, engagement, and turnover intentions [Paper presentation]. 17th Conference on International Human Resource Management, University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. https://ud.ac.ae/ihrmconference-dubai2025/
Drawing on (anticipatory) psychological contract (APC) theory, this paper compares the job expectations of early career police officers (up to two years of experience) with the ‘lived experiences’ of established officers (three of more years of exper... Read More about Great expectations: The rhetoric and reality of police officers’ job expectations, satisfaction, engagement, and turnover intentions.