Samenvatting

Our society is in constant change, due to a variety of social developments. This presents a significant challenge for the police organization. It is essential that employees, the organization, and leaders can handle this challenge in a resilient and vital manner. What does this require from police leadership, both now and in the future? There is a need for leaders who are focused on society and who connect with colleagues on a personal level. Leaders can enhance or diminish the well-being, work engagement, and performance of employees through their intrinsic motivation. They can do so by inspiring, facilitating, developing, and connecting with them, or by hindering them in these aspects. Research shows that to enable leaders to exhibit this type of engaging leadership more frequently, various organizational conditions are important; such as span of support, workload, role clarity and autonomy of leaders, and the degree of centralization within the organization.