Purpose

Police organizations work better when officers feel satisfied with their jobs. High job satisfaction has been linked to positive outcomes for both officers and police organizations. Perceived fairness of transfers should be positively associated with job satisfaction. There has been little research in this area, and none of the limited past studies have studied this association among Pakistani police officers.

Design/methodology/approach

Data for the study comes from a survey of 550 officers working in the Lahore police stations in Punjab, Pakistan.

Findings

After controlling for location, work assignment, rank, length of service, marital status, age and educational level, the strongest predictor of job satisfaction was perceived fairness in transfers, an important aspect of policing in Pakistan.

Research limitations/implications

This was a single exploratory study that only measured perceived fairness of transfers. There is a need for additional studies. Further, broader measures of organizational fairness should be used in future studies.

Practical implications

Police administrators should ask staff why they perceive transfers as fair or not and what can be done to improve their perceptions.

Originality/value

There has been little research on police in Pakistan and the current study examined perceptions of fairness in terms of transfers with the job satisfaction among police officers in Pakistan.

中文翻译：

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警察之间的调动公平性和工作满意度

目的

当警察对工作感到满意时，警察组织的工作会更好。高工作满意度与官员和警察组织的积极成果息息相关。转移的公平感应与工作满意度成正比。在这方面的研究很少，过去有限的研究都没有研究巴基斯坦警察之间的这种联系。

设计/方法/方法

该研究的数据来自对在巴基斯坦旁遮普邦拉合尔警察局工作的550名警察的调查。

发现

在控制了地点，工作分配，职级，服务时间，婚姻状况，年龄和受教育程度之后，对工作满意度的最强预测指标被认为是转移的公平性，这是巴基斯坦维持治安的一个重要方面。

研究局限/意义

这是一项单独的探索性研究，仅测量了转移的感知公平性。需要进行其他研究。此外，在未来的研究中应使用更广泛的组织公平性度量。

实际影响

警察管理人员应询问工作人员，为什么他们认为转移是公平的还是不公平的，以及可以采取哪些措施来改善他们的看法。

创意/价值

在巴基斯坦，关于警察的研究很少，当前的研究以巴基斯坦警察在工作满意度方面的调动来考察公平感。