Trond Myklebust

Assistant Chief of Police

Email: Trond.Myklebust@phs.no

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Background and experience

Assistant Chief of Police/PhD

As a serving police officer having both a theoretical and practical experience in forensic psychology and police work, I have specialised in tactical investigation, Work- and Organisational Psychology, both in Norway and abroad. I work in close collaboration with many police forces and law enforcement agencies around the world, providing research, consultancy and training on a wide variety of topics relating to my area of expertise.

Teaching

Forensic Psychology
Work- and organisational Psychology
Investigative procedures, decision making processes & Investigative interviewing
Program Leader Master in Investigation

Research

Forensic Psychology, Investigative procedures and Investigative Interviewing
Work- and organisational Psychology: Positive Psychology, Organisational Change, Human factors
The police as a learning organisation
Investigative Interviewing

Research groups

Organization and leadership

Hafstad, Marius Duhovic; González-Romá, Vicente; Bjørkli, Cato; Myklebust, Trond & Fostervold, Knut Inge (2026). Beyond the individual: A multilevel model of employees perceived organizational support. Journal of Management & Organization. ISSN 1833-3672. doi: 10.1017/jmo.2026.10081. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The focus of existing research on perceived organizational support (POS) has largely been concentrated at the individual-level, leaving an understudied gap at a higher unit-level of analysis. This study aims to fill this gap by examining the multilevel relationship between employee POS and job satisfaction, emphasizing the moderating role of unit-level POS. We hypothesize, based on POS theory and social comparison theory, that unit-level POS serves as a contextual moderator for the relationship between individual-level POS and job satisfaction. Additionally, at the unit-level, we identify clan culture values and unit-satisfaction as correlates of unit-POS. We test our hypotheses using a Bayesian Multilevel Structural Modeling approach on 45 work units and 317 employees. The results show that at low levels of unit-level POS, individual-level POS is more important for employees’ job satisfaction. We furthermore found support for a positive association between unit-level POS, unit-clan culture, and unit satisfaction. Our results, and their notable theoretical and practical implications, are discussed.
Myklebust, Trond; Hafstad, Marius Duhovic; Bjørkli, Cato; Fostervold, Knut Inge & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2025). The effect of multiple climates on readiness for change within the Norwegian Police Service. International Journal of Police Science and Management. ISSN 1461-3557. doi: 10.1177/14613557251337304. Full text in Research Archive
Hafstad, Marius Duhovic; Bang, Henning; Bjørkli, Cato; Myklebust, Trond & Fostervold, Knut Inge (2024). Cultivating flexibility: the relationship between flexible organizational values, participation climate, and job attitudes from an employee perspective. Current Psychology. ISSN 1046-1310. 43(41), p. 32027–32039. doi: 10.1007/s12144-024-06759-y. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Adopting a flexible organizational culture have the potential to be a remedy for organizations that face globalization, technological advancements, and higher expectations from the workforce. However, research on the mechanism between organizational culture and its outcomes remain understudied. This study adopts an employee-centric approach, suggesting that employees’ perception of a participation climate act as a mediator between flexible organizational culture values (clan and adhocracy values) and employees’ organizational commitment and readiness for change. Cross-sectional data was collected from 619 police employees and analyzed by a two-step structural equation modeling approach. The results supports participation climate as a mediator. Participation climate partially mediated the relationship between clan culture and organizational commitment, adhocracy culture and organizational commitment, and adhocracy culture and eadiness for change. Full mediation was found for the relationship between clan culture and readiness for change. Theoretically, this study provides supporting evidence of a relationship between employees’ perceptions of flexible organizational values and a climate for participation, grounded in the notion that organizational climate is the surface level manifestation of organizational culture. Practically, the results offer valuable insight for leaders and organizations who seek knowledge on flexible values, participation climate, employee commitment and readiness for change.
Myklebust, Trond; Rooy, David J. La & Peixoto, Carlos E. (2023). The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Protocol. In Oxburgh, Gavin E.; Myklebust, Trond; Fallon, Mark & Hartwig, Maria (Ed.), Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since world war II. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISSN 9788283482003. p. 367–387. Full text in Research Archive
Risan, Patrick; Myklebust, Trond; Bjerknes, Ole Thomas & Oxburgh, Gavin (2023). Police interviewers’ experiences of the Tactical Interview Model (TIM): an exploratory study of suspect interviewing in Norway. Psychology, Crime and Law. ISSN 1068-316X. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2279327. Full text in Research Archive
Myklebust, Trond & Oxburgh, Gavin E. (2023). The International Investigative Intervewing Researcg Group(iIIRG). In Oxburgh, Gavin E.; Myklebust, Trond; Fallon, Mark & Hartwig, Maria (Ed.), Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since world war II. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISSN 9788283482003. p. 459–474. Full text in Research Archive
Myklebust, Trond; Motland, Karoline; Garnås, Alexander; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Bjørkli, Cato Alexander & Fostervold, Knut Inge (2020). An Empirical evaluation of the relationship between human relations climate and readiness for change. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 5(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.16993/sjwop.74. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Readiness for change is seen as an important factor in organisational change processes, but it is unclear how organisational climate might affect readiness for change. Addressing this important gap, the purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between human relations climate, a dimension of the Quinn and Rohrbaugh’s competing values framework of organizational climate, and readiness for change. More specifically the aim was to investigate the mediating role of perceived organisational support. Employees in the Norwegian Police Service (N = 901) answered a survey measuring organisational culture. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling. Following a two-step analytical approach, the measurement models were first evaluated and then the relationships between constructs were examined. Evaluations of the original measurement models showed non-satisfactory fit, however after modifications, the measurement models were found to have satisfactory fit. In the second step, both the original and the modified measurement models were applied to the examination of three competing models: a partially mediated model, a fully mediated model, and a non-mediated model. Evaluation of the models showed fully mediated models (original and modified) to have the best fit to data, suggesting that the relationship between human relations organisational climate and employees’ readiness for change is mediated by perceived organisational support. The finding adds theoretically to literature on organisational climate, highlighting the role of perceived organisational support. From an applied perspective actions fostering human relations climate to strengthen perceived organisational support are recommended.

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Oxburgh, Gavin E.; Myklebust, Trond; Fallon, Mark & Hartwig, Maria (2023). Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since world war II. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISBN 9788283482003. Full text in Research Archive

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Hartwig, Maria; Fallon, Mark; Myklebust, Trond & Oxburgh, Gavin E. (2023). Concluding remarks on the future of interviewing and interrogation: Advancing science and practice. In Oxburgh, Gavin E.; Myklebust, Trond; Fallon, Mark & Hartwig, Maria (Ed.), Interviewing and interrogation: A review of research and practice since world war II. TOAEP - Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher. ISSN 9788283482003. p. 521–529. Full text in Research Archive
Myklebust, Trond & Oxburgh, Gavin E. (2019). Interviewing vulnerable and/or reluctant witnesses. Full text in Research Archive

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