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1 results foundAuthor: Herrington, Victoria Title: Return on Investment from Public Safety Leadership Education: An Impact Evaluation of the AIPM Graduate Programs Summary: The AIPM delivers two graduate-level programs: the Graduate Certificate in Applied Management, and the Graduate Diploma in Executive Leadership. These programs service the needs of police and emergency services in Australia and New Zealand, as well as further afield, and have been running in one form or another since 2002. Whilst there is considerable anecdotal evidence to suggest that these programs are well received by participants, and valued by the jurisdictions that sponsor participants' attendance, these programs have never before been formally evaluated for their impact on leaders' behaviour, and the flow on benefits to organisations. This report presents data from such an evaluation. A mixed-methods approach was adopted and data were collected between March 2012 and November 2013. Data were collected from course participants both before and after their engagement in the graduate program; from former course participants who had completed their studies between 12 and 24 months prior; from the managers of course participants; and from jurisdictional stakeholders. KEY FINDINGS The graduate programs were positively regarded by participants, managers and stakeholders, and had notable impacts on individual behaviour and workplace practice. This led to significant benefits for organisations. Specifically: - The graduate programs had a statistically significant and positive impact on confidence in one’s leadership skills. - The graduate programs had a statistically significant and positive impact on self-reported behaviour in the five domains of the Leadership Capability Framework: setting strategic direction, achieving results, building and managing relationships, communicating with influence, and personal drive and integrity. - The graduate programs had a statistically significant impact on confidence and behaviour associated with policing and industry-relevant skills. - The small opportunity sample of managers interviewed largely concurred with participants' behavioural self-assessments following their graduate program, suggesting that self-assessments were accurate reflections of workplace behaviour. Two notable exceptions were the achieving results and personal drive and integrity domains, where manager assessments were more positive. - Qualitative data from former students showed that they had implemented their learning from the graduate program in a number of ways. The impact of which had led to enhanced staff wellbeing, productivity, and improved outcomes against organisational goals. - Qualitative data from former students also suggested that leadership development was an ongoing process, and continued beyond the end of the graduate program, with workplace experience marrying well with their formal learning to lead to exponential benefits over time. - The return on investment (ROI) to organisations for sending employees to AIPM graduate programs was calculated using an established formula, but as with all ROI calculation caution must be used in interpreting the results because of the number of assumptions involved. Nonetheless the calculated ROI for the graduate programs ranged from 164% to 3326% depending on the hypothesised duration of the training effect. Organisations can expect a 164% return on investment if the impact of the training lasts for one year, and a 3326% return on investment if it lasts for the remainder of the individual's career (estimated at 13 years). In conclusion, this research represents a methodologically robust evaluation of the AIPM's graduate programs and draws on multiple sources of data. To our knowledge, there have been no similarly robust evaluations of police leadership programs to date across the world, and as such this research represents an important contribution to knowledge. That these findings indicate that AIPM's graduate programs have a significant impact on leadership behaviour in line with the expectations of sponsoring organisations, and that there seem to be considerable organisational gains to be had from this ongoing investment, should be of interest to sponsoring organisations, further highlighting the importance of this work. Of course, and as with all research, there are limitations that need to be considered. Accurately assessing the longitudinal impact of these programs is one area that requires further investigation. Details: Manly, NSW: Australian Institute of Police Management, 2014. 57p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 11, 2014 at: http://www.aipm.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ROI-from-PS-Education-March-2014.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aipm.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ROI-from-PS-Education-March-2014.pdf Shelf Number: 132650 Keywords: Police AdministrationPolice AdministratorsPolice Education and Training (Australia) |