Cooperative affiliation in the area of cooperative competence of public officers on the example of the near-Oder Border Guards department.

Abstract

The academic world underlines that greater attention should be paid to the development of concepts that emphasize the high competences of the public sector, the exceptional status of the public service, and a high organizational culture based on public values. Contemporarily, is necessary to create a public organizations, whose nucleus based on synergies, and hence, cooperative competencies and distinctive cooperation of workers. Participant should be aware of the need to build a network of interpersonal contacts and realize common good through joint action. An example of such an organizations are Border Guards, which have an important role in Poland’s security system, protecting its borders. The most important competences of all participants in public institutions are the cooperative competencies identified for research, meaningfully cooperative affiliation. The research covered 30% of the officers of the NearOder Border Guards Unit, performing service in twelve organizational units, in three voivodships: lubuskie, wielkopolskie and dolnośląskie. A quasi-benchmarking method was applied in which research techniques were used: questionnaires, document analyzes, interviews, and case studies. Distinguished cooperative competencies exist basically in every social area of the organization’s functioning. The degree of their universality depends on many socio-demographic characteristics. The intensity of cooperative affiliation increases with the transfer of officers through successive stages of the socialization process. There is quite clear competition in this field that should be treated by management as a constructive element. In a sense, institutional collectivism is present in the groups of border guards and should be taken into account in the management of (security) practice.