HR9400 - Decision-making, Teamwork and Leadership in Policing

As this is a first-year module learning will framed around a series of large group sessions. These lectures will include a research-led element as the module tutor draws upon research and extensive subject expertise in order to expose you to current debates about decision making, team work and leadership.

Students will be expected to locate, read and utilise secondary source materials on management theory and policing within small group sessions. There students may be required to discuss, explain and analyse the ideas and information with students and staff and to participate in any simulations, roles plays or exercises which explore leadership, team work and decision making

Lecture slides, reading lists and guidance will be placed upon our virtual learning environment – Blackboard along with other selected learning materials including recordings making use of Panopto software. Other University software – such as PebblePad -may be used where appropriate. Lecturers will be available to discuss ideas and issues with students inside and outside the classrooms

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
By the end of the module you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of key aspects of team work, leadership and decision making (including bias and risk) and your ability to apply those in scenarios encountered by police.

2. Demonstrate your understanding of the various elements of the National Decision Model (NDM), discretion and the recording of decisions as well as their deployment and rationale.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
By the end of the module you should be able to:
3. Communicate your knowledge and understanding of team work, leadership and decision making (noted above) and your ability to apply those principles and discretion to scenarios encountered by police.


Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

By the end of the module you should have developed the ability to:

4. Understand how varying circumstances can exert different influence upon the decision-making process for individuals as well as team leader

5. Explain the professional importance of ethics, self-evaluation, self-improvement and reflective practice for career and leadership development

Formative assessment

During the semester you will have two formative assessments. (1) A written exercise analysing a problem scenario relating to policing, requiring a plan of action. This will be marked by your seminar tutor and you will receive written feedback on your answer. (2) A mock examination to be made available via the eLP and completed in your own time. You will receive written feedback in the form of a model answer and oral feedback in the form of a discussion of the examination in one of the workshops.

Summative assessment

This will take the form of a 2 hour unseen examination. The examination will require you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of key aspects of team work, leadership and decision making in the context of policing

Summative feedback will be available in written form on scripts, via the eLP as notes for guidance and orally from module/seminar tutors.

Assessment Criteria and Grade-Related Criteria will be made available to you to support you in completing assessments. Grade-Related Descriptors are descriptions of the level of skills, knowledge and/or attributes that you need to demonstrate in order achieve a certain grade or mark in an assessment, providing a mechanism by which the quality of an assessment can be measured and placed within the overall set of marks.

N/A

N/A

This module ‘Decision-making, Teamwork and Leadership in Policing’ combines relevant management theories with the literature on current policing policies and practices and is designed to help students understand key elements of each aspect within context of policing.
This module includes content that will help students: appreciate how various factors such as risk, bias and circumstances affect judgements and decision made by officers on the an everyday basis; understand key aspects of teamwork; and to improve their ideas about leadership at various levels of the police service