Career Orientation of Law Enforcement Officers

Abstract

The article presents the results of a theoretical and empirical study of career orientations of law enforcement officers. The study involved 100 employees, including 49 men and 51 women. The following methods were used as diagnostic tools: “Career anchors” (E. Shaeine) and “Methods for diagnosing socio-psychological attitudes of a person in the motivational-need sphere” (O.F. Potemkina). Methods of mathematical and statistical data processing — calculation of average sample values and factor analysis. It is shown that the career motivation of law enforcement officers includes career orientations on the stability of the workplace, service, integration of lifestyles and autonomy, as well as socio-psychological attitudes to the result and process of work, altruism, freedom and power. With the help of factor analysis, it was revealed that the model of career motivation of law enforcement officers contains the following components: rationally independent, socially useful, influential-activity and autonomous-initiative orientation in a career. It is summarized that the identification of career motivation factors can be useful when creating a prolonged program of psychological support for law enforcement officers to improve their professionalism.