Promoting gender-responsive talent management in police organizations through strategic HRM measuring

Abstract

Gender-responsive talent management assumes attracting, developing and retaining a required talented workforce in a way that promotes gender equality. Ensuring the balanced representation of female and male personnel is essential for police services to be able to prevent, detect and investigate crimes against women and men effectively. However, in a number of countries police organisations continue to be predominantly male with poor representation of women in high-ranking positions, and owing to the underutilization of their skills and discriminatory attitudes and policies, sexual harassment and difficulties combining police work with family responsibilities. Therefore, in this paper we seek to explore and propose a strategic HRM instrument for promoting a gender-responsive talent management in policing through measuring.