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Apparently, the entire organizations have set value, whether they are written or not. The values act as guidance to its activities and a strategy to define organizational beliefs and culture (Harrison & Caron, 2013, p.82). Member of organizations should subscribe with the values of their organization in order to unite every member of the organization when addressing a variety of issues. The research examines the importance of the Australian Federal Police values.
The government of Australia and its citizens on the Australian Federal Police to help reducing cases of crime by maintain law and order in an efficient way. Thus, it is very important for the federal agency to have competent leaders that can establish effective values to guide its perspective and actions. The agency released the corporate plan 2015-2019 that indicates its seven values. These include integrity, excellence, commitment, accountability, trust, fairness, and, respects (Australian Federal Police, 2015).
The agency perceives that the value of integrity helps it demonstrate sincerity, honesty, and moral principle in its mission of providing effective and dynamic law enforcement to Australian principle. Further, the value indicates how the organization willing to offer its services through complete trustworthiness when handling information, financial resources, and property.
It is an important value to the in the sense that it show how the AFP is willing to display forthrightness and honesty in its commitment to serve people. In essence, people look forward for protection and honest services when seeking services from organizations. Consequently, they will develop a feeling that such organization is reliable in handling their confidential information, money and even properties.
Likewise, the Australian people will positively judge the AFP on how it would display truthfulness and honesty when seeking services related to crime. In addition, the value of integrity helps the organization to accomplish its mission through integrating personal conduct. This implies that the AFP demonstrates the willingness to train its workers to express high standard charter at any given time (Commonwealth of Australia, s2015).
The value is important in the sense that it shows the characteristics of the organization in the form of perseverance, application, belief, and dedication to add and achieve the needed value. Commitment in organization displays how individuals in the organization are willing to improve their output. It is also a sign of how an employee’s feeling to work toward accomplishing the organizational mission (Australian Federal Police, 2015). To be specific, it shows how the organization is willing to accomplish it vision and mission through striving to uphold the expectations of its clients. Secondly, the AFP will strive to see that it achieves milestone from corporate, team, or individual efforts. Thirdly, it is a sign that the organization is putting measure to see that its employees align themselves to assigned responsibilities.
The excellence value is important in the sense that it show how the agency believes that it has room for improvement (Lal, 2008). By empowering its people to provide quality services, the AFP is in a good position to become one of the most reliable security agencies in Australia. Secondly, it helps putting measures to develop and coach it employees for the sake of controlling rather than directing them. The idea can be regarded as excellent as it will highly contribute in identifying urgency and seriousness of issues related to security in an effort to accomplish the set mission rather than waiting for superiors to show them the way forward.
The value is important as it helps the AFP focus on coaching its staff to own their results and become answerable to them (Australian Federal Police, 2015). Consequently, employees will learn to own the consequences of their efforts in making Australia a secure environment despite the fact that they may not have acted towards their superior’s expectations. Secondly, they also learn the need to make group or individual decisions that aligns with the mission of the organization. This way, they will be working hard to improve their performance as they will be aware of what is expected from them and how their output would be determined.
The value states that it is important for people to become equitable and impartial in their initiatives. The AFP will be in a position to accomplish its mission by encouraging its employees to display values that show equity, anti-discrimination, and fairness principles when serving clients (Australian Federal Police, 2015). Also, they will not be prejudicial when serving certain communities on accounts of their status.
The value shows how the AFP is determined to show confidence and trust in its objectives. It will help the organization foster an environment that encourages its people to make honest mistakes when in an attempt to enforce the slaw in Australia.
The value shows how the AFP is ready to treat others and itself by valuing the employees and considering the interest of its clients regardless of their status and roles in Australia. It also shows that it is willing to adopt diversity in the workplace. This is an important value as it will enable the clients to have confidence that everybody’s roles and status will not be discriminated in an effort to seek help (Australian Federal Police, 2015).
Out of the seven values, commitment, and excellence are the most important.
Organizational commitment indicates how employees wish to work with their organization and their attitude toward their tasks (Regent University, 2008, p.12). The value helps the AFP to recognize the need for establishing bonds with employees. Apparently, it is important for employees to feel that they are connected with their organizations. This is because they work hard in identifying goals, develop a feeling of satisfaction in their work, and fit within their workplace. Moreover, they will have a chance to add value to the mission of the organization by gaining the determination to work hard, become more proactive in providing their efforts, and showing a high level of productivity.
For AFP, adopting the value of commitment is critical in the sense that it demonstrates how willing the agency is in reducing security threats and reduced crime to help the country engage in co-operative policing services. This can be achieved effectively if the administration values the effort of its employee’s commitment in playing a big role in seeking to accomplish effective national security and federal policing.
In addition, work commitment is important in the sense that they will work hard until they achieve the goals of the organizations. To elaborate, workers of AFP will work hard to see the agency becomes one of the leading security organizations that establish law and order. They will see that client’s inquiries are catered for to their satisfaction.
This includes putting a big effort in locating and arresting criminals that break the law whenever victims of crime or even witnesses report such cases. In other words, they understand the need to fight crime as the vision of AFP and even make recommendations that will help achieve the mission fast and easily.
Organizational excellence entails how an internal framework of standard of organization engages in motivating its employees to deliver products that meet the requirement of the business. Thus, excellence implies the dedication of the organization to provide quality products at all levels (Lal, 2008). The value is thus very important for the AFP to adopt and implement as it will play a big role in empowering its employees to provide high quality services to the clients.
For instance, victims of crimes would expect the agent of the AFP to show superiority in reducing crime in Australia. The AFP will need its employees to acquire superb skills in identifying areas where crime rates common and establish effective strategies to address them. In addition, the AFP will be in a position to empower its employees to improve their performances in an effort to achieve the set mission. That is, they will be able to dedicate their time to see that they work on providing high quality security services to the Australian people.
Generally, organizations that purses excellence are able to make the prestige and appeal of the workplace stronger. In this case, the AFP will strengthen its appeal to client by encouraging its employees to serve clients to their level best. Clients will compliment the ability of the employees with the way they handle their inquiries by understanding their specific needs.
Moreover, the AFP is in a position to empower its employees to take risks, become innovative, and engage in experimentation. Employees will also be able to share their work, take responsibility of their tasks, and deal with discipline issues, performance problems, and conflicts that may arise during working hours. In addition, it is critical for organizations to empower its employee’s sole problems together.
The agency will also be in a position to encourage its employees to improve their performance to reduce inefficiencies and waste. This is an important idea in the sense that it will help the AFP employees use the agency resources economically and serve its client on a timely basis. Also, an organization that empowers its workers to improve demonstrates a strong leadership. This includes leadership qualities such as creativity, understanding of the needs of the organization, enthusiasm, ability to implement organizational change, decision making, adaptability and self awareness, and future vision.
These qualities are critical in guiding the AFP on how to come up with decisions in case the agency needs to identify effective strategies to combat crime in Australia. Its leaders will play a major role in motivating and aspiring its employees in joining effort to provide effective and stronger law enforcement to its client. This way, there is a high probability that a big number of people of Australia will live in a secure environment, mainly because the staff of AFP work towards taking responsibilities and have learned dedicate their skills and effort to serve clients.
Values are important to organizations as they encourage individuals in an organization to dedicate their efforts to achieve the missions and set goals. Leaders ought to play a big role in encouraging people to value the set framework. As for AFP, the values are equally important in helping the agency to achieve its mission of providing law effective and dynamic law for the Australian people. Its dedication to provide quality services to client make the commitment and excellence tow of the most important values.
References
Australian Federal Police. (2015). Corporate Plan 2015-2019. Pdf
Commonwealth of Australia. (2015). Values – Australian Federal Police. Retrieved from http://www.afp.gov.au/about-the-afp/our-organisation/values
Harrison,, J. S., & Caron, H. (2013). Foundations in Strategic Management (6th ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning.
Lal, H. (2008). Organizational excellence through total quality management: A practical apporach. New Delhi: New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers
Regent University. (2008). The Relationships Among Leadership Practices, Organizational Climate, and Organizational Commitment Within Church Ministry Settings. AnnArbor: ProQuest,.