Leadership in Mourning: Leading Personnel Through a Line-of-Duty Death, Suicide, or Other Tragedy

摘要

Leaders shouldn't wait for a tragedy to strike their agency to consider how they would handle it and respond. Police work is about training and preparing for any outcome. The material presented here, including a model of bereavement, can be used to help leaders structure their message when addressing their personnel. It is hard to imagine a more difficult job for a leader than addressing a group of police officers who have just lost one of their own. Messages that reflect the leader's understanding of the grief process and are filled with compassion and emotional warmth have the greatest likelihood of facilitating the mourning process and promoting hardiness attitudes for individuals and the organization.