The Effects of Value Orientation on Commander's Performance

Police is one of organizations affecting the society. Appropriate circumstance for development could be provided by increasing security perception and reducing crime in society. Therefore, identifying effective factors on commanders’ performance is an important issue and the commanders expected to be a value based leader in their organizational responsibilities and in communicating and leading their subordinates. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of value orientation on commanders’ performance that includes the effects of politeness and respect, commitment, gravity, continence, honesty, justice, integrity and adornment on their performance. this research is a descriptive-cross sectional survey, and regard to drawing desired state in addition to present state as an applied research. For sampling, population has been divided to two sectors including chief of police and experts in staff. Based on Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table that is equivalent to Cochran's sample size formula with error of 5%, the sample size has been determined to be 63 and 123 from 75 experts in staff and 181 chief of police, respectively. A questionnaire has been developed to measure value orientation and police performance components. 186 from 200 distributed questionnaire have been received and reliability and validity of measurement has been proved based on statistical analysis. In this research, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling has been used for model validation and hypothesis testing in SmartPLS. Results of analysis show that value orientation has significant positive effect on commanders performance and adornment and discipline has most influence and continence has least influence among it’s components. Based on the results, value orientation has significant positive impact on commanders’ performance. In accordance to results of structural equation modeling, among value orientation’s components, five components has significant standard coefficient including adornment and discipline, politeness and respect, integrity, gravity and justice. Also the most effective component is adornment and discipline and the least effective component is continence.