Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors
Maintaining order and safety in a prison environment heavily depends on prison officers, who daily interact with prisoners and are constantly dealing with dangerous situations. Their task performance is vital for the organizational performance and the fulfillment of the prisons’ mission. For managin...
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| author | Katrin Podgorski Branko Lobnikar Anže Mihelič Kaja Prislan Mihelič |
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| description | Maintaining order and safety in a prison environment heavily depends on prison officers, who daily interact with prisoners and are constantly dealing with dangerous situations. Their task performance is vital for the organizational performance and the fulfillment of the prisons’ mission. For managing prison officers’ job performance efficiently, it is important to understand the associated factors; however, job performance in a prison environment remains completely unexplored in Slovenia. This article presents a study conducted among Slovenian prison officers (n = 201), which examined their task performance, its association with job attitudes, and the role of organizational and work-related factors. The study results showed that the prison officers’ task performance is associated with their job satisfaction, but not with their job involvement. Moreover, their job satisfaction is associated with perceived organizational justice, job stress, and the dangerousness of the job. Based on these findings, we demonstrated that task performance depends on several direct and indirect factors that prison management should prioritize, the key ones being stress reduction, strengthening the feeling of organizational justice, and the ability to deal with the job-related dangers successfully. This article highlights organizational and work-related factors important for improving the prison officers’ well-being at work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a25e093a312f42f4afef31356ac957c62023-09-08T12:09:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-09-011410.3389/fpsyg.2023.12477431247743Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factorsKatrin Podgorski0Branko Lobnikar1Anže Mihelič2Kaja Prislan Mihelič3General Police Directorate, Ministry of the Interior, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ljubljana, SloveniaFaculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ljubljana, SloveniaMaintaining order and safety in a prison environment heavily depends on prison officers, who daily interact with prisoners and are constantly dealing with dangerous situations. Their task performance is vital for the organizational performance and the fulfillment of the prisons’ mission. For managing prison officers’ job performance efficiently, it is important to understand the associated factors; however, job performance in a prison environment remains completely unexplored in Slovenia. This article presents a study conducted among Slovenian prison officers (n = 201), which examined their task performance, its association with job attitudes, and the role of organizational and work-related factors. The study results showed that the prison officers’ task performance is associated with their job satisfaction, but not with their job involvement. Moreover, their job satisfaction is associated with perceived organizational justice, job stress, and the dangerousness of the job. Based on these findings, we demonstrated that task performance depends on several direct and indirect factors that prison management should prioritize, the key ones being stress reduction, strengthening the feeling of organizational justice, and the ability to deal with the job-related dangers successfully. This article highlights organizational and work-related factors important for improving the prison officers’ well-being at work.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1247743/fulljob performancetask performanceworkplace psychologyprisonprison officer |
| spellingShingle | Katrin Podgorski Branko Lobnikar Anže Mihelič Kaja Prislan Mihelič Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors Frontiers in Psychology job performance task performance workplace psychology prison prison officer |
| title | Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors |
| title_full | Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors |
| title_fullStr | Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors |
| title_short | Drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in Slovenia: effects of job attitudes, organizational, and work-related factors |
| title_sort | drivers for enhancing job performance of prison officers in slovenia effects of job attitudes organizational and work related factors |
| topic | job performance task performance workplace psychology prison prison officer |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1247743/full |
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