The Managerial Role of Police Commanders on Police Employee's Retention

Proper implementation and utilization of managerial roles, while assisting the retention of employees, gives more confidence to police departments’ employees to continue their policing activities, and in turn promotes police departments’ employees motivation and performance on one hand, and decreases the vulnerability of police employees. The present study aims at identifying the managerial role of police department commanders and its impact on employees’ retention. Within this descriptive survey, managerial roles of commanders of police departments based on Mintzberg managerial role (interpersonal, informational, and decisional) are raised as an independent variable and employees’ retention as a dependent variable. The data collected using self ـmade questionnaire; its validity was controlled by experts and professors and its reliability approved (a= 0. 91). The statistical society was employees from Hamadan Province police departments in 1387 (2009). By using Cochran formula, 171 employees were selected through stratified random sampling method. The data was analyzed through using single ـvariable regression test. The findings indicated that managerial roles of police commanders had impact on employees’ retention. Amon 3 managerial roles (interpersonal, informational, and decisional, decisional roles) had the most impact on employee retention. Police department commanders should attend sufficient training courses on managerial roles. Special attention should be paid to the decisional roles on employees’ retention.