Cross-cultural Training of Danish Police Officers

Sara Louise Muhr, Julie Lorenzen

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Abstract

Nordic countries are rarely associated with colonialism. However, Danish history contains both early colonies in Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa, and interesting to this case, Greenland. In 1824, Greenland became a Danish colony and remained so until it became part of the Danish kingdom in 1953. The empirical data for this case emanates from the collaboration between the Greenlandic and Danish police in 2015. Every summer, a group of Danish officers are sent to Greenland to assist the police force while local officers are on summer holidays. The case centers on a one-week course in January of 2015 that is provided to the selected group of Danish officers going to Greenland the following summer. The main focus is kept on how a group of leaders from the Greenlandic police, with Danish and Greenlandic backgrounds, present the upcoming experience and work to the Danish officers, as well as the officers' immediate reactions to this information. The case targets mainly master students who can conduct advanced power analyses of cross-cultural management, diversity-management or responsible management. The case doesn't have one correct solution. Rather, the students are required to engage in critical independent reflections about the paradoxes and dilemmas raised in the case.
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2016
Place of PublicationFrederiksberg
PublisherCopenhagen Business School, CBS
Number of pages25
Publication statusPublished - 2016
SeriesCBS free case collection

Bibliographical note

Case - Reference no. 716-0059-1

Keywords

  • Management
  • Power

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