Author: Michael Giroux
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Excessive Niceness Impacts Among First Responders
Amanda Neuts & Michael Giroux Department of Leadership & Organizational Studies LOS 770 – The Learning Organization Joe Lasley, Ph.D. May 4, 2024 Traumatic situations require the ability to exhibit empathy, care, and compassion. However, when these traits and skills are combined in such a way that the behavior could be considered ‘excessively nice,’ they…
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The Fifth Discipline and Theory U
Previous scholarship suggests higher rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide completions for law enforcement, compared to the general population, which are hypothesized to correlate to their levels of occupational and organization stress and depression. Violanti and Steege’s 2021 research, using proportionate mortality ratio data from 1999, 2003-2004, and 2007-2014, showed that law…
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Deadly Interventions in Suicide Prevention
Abstract Previous scholarship suggests higher rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and suicide completions for law enforcement, compared to the general population, which are hypothesized to correlate with their levels of occupational and organization stress and depression.Occupational stress is induced by the profession of law enforcement and includes sudden and spontaneous emergency calls, scenes…
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That Smoky Night
Part A: Concrete Experience Smoke. Thick, black smoke all around me. Despite being pitch black outside in the middle of the night, I could still see the smoke backlit by an orange glow. My eyes couldn’t focus on anything as it was like seeing the world through a black curtain. As I turned onto the…
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My Leadership Story
Being The primary driving force behind me becoming a leader was a natural calling endorsed by my parents. My mother and father divorced when I was one year old. My mother remarried when I was four and my dad remarried when I was six. With four parents during most of my formative years, there…
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