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  • Excessive Niceness Impacts Among First Responders

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    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…

  • The Fifth Discipline and Theory U

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    Michael Giroux
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                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…