Abstract
Police recruits learn police culture through the process of organisational socialisation. However, in New South Wales, since a Royal Commission inquiry into corruption in the police organisation in the mid-1990s, the organisational environment including police culture has become more complex and contingent. Under such a condition, recruits have been facing socialisation problems caused not only by shock at the gap between pre-entry expectation and reality but also by the diversity and shift of police culture. This article explores a recruit-friendly training method employing organisational network theory to improve socialisation problems. Network theory suggests that developing information networks and friendship networks contributes to an increase in organisational commitment, through which police recruits can socialise with the police organisation as a whole more smoothly.
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