Self-legitimacy of police officers in Slovenia

What is it about?

The paper focuses on the self-legitimacy of police officers and its impact on pro-organizational behavior in 2013 and 2016. Overall findings revealed organizational justice as the strongest predictor of self-legitimacy of police officers in Slovenia, followed by relations with colleagues, audience legitimacy, supervisors’ procedural justice, and years of service. The invariance of the “core variables” (relations with colleagues, supervisors’ procedural justice, and audience legitimacy) and their influence on the self-legitimacy of police officers in different time periods was partially confirmed, as the impact of supervisors’ procedural justice was disrupted with the inclusion of the variable organizational commitment in regression analyses. Pro-organizational behavior of police officers was influenced by their perception of individual legitimacy, organizational commitment, education, and years of service. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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