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Employee behavior that requires an immediate corrective action by the supervisor
Actionable item
Midlevel chief who often have a funtional area if responsibility, suck as training, and who amswer tonthe fire chief
Assistant of division chief
Usually the first level fire chief. These chiefs are responsible for running calls ans supervising multiple stations
Battalion chief
The second rank in promotion in the fire service
Captain
A rank structure, spanning the firefighter through chief
Chain of command
Restraining, regulating, governing, counteracting or overpowering
Controlling
The guideline that a department sets for firefighters to work with
Discipline
A characteristic of a fire workplace that reflects differences in terms of age, cultural background, race, gender
Diversity
Breaking down a task or incident to smaller more manageable tasks
Division of labor
Decisions and behavior demonstrated by a fire officer that are consistent with the departments core values, mission starement
Ethical behavior
Fire officer at the entry level who has met the job performance requirements specified in NFPA 1021 for level 1
Fire officer 1
Fire officer at the supervisory managerial level who has met thr job performance requirements in NFPA 1021 level 2
Fire officer 2
An environment that can result from the unwelcome conduct of supervisors, coworkers, customers or anyone else the victim interacts on the job, and the unwelcome conduct renders the workplace atmosphere intimidating, hostile, or offensive
Hostile work environment
System that defines the roles and responsibilities to be assumed by personnel and the operating procedures to be used in the management and direction of emergency operation ; incident management system NFPA 1670
Incident command system
A complex process by which a person influences others to accomplish a mission task or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive
Leadership
Guiding or directing in a course of action
Leading
The description from the IAFC officer development handbook for the tasks and expectations for a fire officer 2. In this role the company officer is encouraged to acquire the appropriate levels of training, experience for thr chief fire officer deisignation
Managing fire officer
The intervention of a nuetral third party in an industrial dispute
Mediation
The association that delivers information and knowledge theough more than 300 consensus codes and standards
NFPA
Putting resources together into an orderly functional structure whole
Organizing
Developing a scheme program or method that is worked out beforehand to accomplish an objective
Planning
Formal statements that provide guidelines for present and future actions
Policies
Directives developed by various government organizations to implement a law that has been passed by government body
Rules and regulations
Written organizational directives that establish or prescribe specific operational or administrative method to be followed
Standard operating procedures
The concept by which each person within an organization report to one designated person (NFPA 1026))
Unity of command
Unsafe acts committed by people who are in direct contact with the situation or system that create voids within the defenses barriers and safeguards within the system that could lead to a loss
Active failure
How’s leaders encourage people to adapt when confronted with problems challenges and changes
Adaptive leadership
A leadership style in which managers make unilaterally without input from subordinates
Autocratic
An emphasis on the personality characteristics of a leader
Behavioral approach
A program focused on improved situational awareness sound critical decision making effective communication proper task allocation and successful teamwork amd leadership (NFPA 1500)
Crew resource management
An organizational process wherein the supervisor divides work among the subordinates and gives them the responsibility to accomplish the task
Delegation
A leadership style in which managers reach decisions with the input of the employee but are responsible for the final decision
Democratic
All activities to train and educate employees
HR development
The process of managing employees in a company. The process includes hiring, firing, training employees
HR management
The process of having the right number of people in the right place at the right time
Human resource planning
Policy or attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering
Laisswz-faire
The process of having the right number of people in the right place at the right time who can accomplish a task effectively
Human resource planning
A policy or attitude of letting things take there own course without interfering
Laissez-Faire
Pre-existing conditions within the safety system defenses, barriers and safeguards within the system that could lead to a loss theough provoking errors or weakening system
Latent conditions
A complex process by which a person influences other to accomplish a mission task or objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent
Leadership
The art of getting things done through and with people in formally organized groups. To forecast plan organize command coordinate and control
Management
A framework of intuitive decision making when operating under limited time uncertainty high stakes and varying amounts of experience.
Naturalistic decision making
Power that reflects the effectiveness of the individual
Personal power
Power that is defined by a role the individual has within the organization
Positional power
The capacity of one party to influence another
Power
A model of how people make quick effective decisions when faced with complex situations by generating a possibile course of action based on intuition and comparing it to the constraints imposed by the situation
Recognition primed decision making
Leadership approach focusing on serving others rather than accruing power or taking control
Servant leadership
The ongoing activity of assessing what is going on around you during the complex and dynamic environment of a fire incident (NFPA 1410)
Situational awareness
A leadership approach where a supervisor adjusts the style of leadership to fit the development level of subordinates. During emergency operations it means adjusting the style of leadership based on the changing conditions of the incident
Situational leadership
An emphasis on the skills or capabilities of a leader
Skills approach
The process of attracting selecting and maintaining an adequate supply of labor as well as reducing the size of labor force when required
Staffing
An emphasis on the traits of an effective leader
Trait approach
A leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goa of developing follower into leaders
Transformational leadership
Nfpa 1620 outlines how many codes for pre-incident planning
6 codes
What year Michigan vs Tyler
1978 ( no warrant )
What was overturned and allowed employers to use unfair labor practices
NIRA
A CRR process begins with
Risk assessment
What type of equipment is preferred to be protected by a wet chemical
Cooking equipment
How r code requirements for structures determined
Use group
What do jurisdiction codes allow for in the design of a building when built in fire protection systems are included
Flexibility
Best describes type IV construction
Most buildings are mixed use spaces
How many levels of command are there in the ICS
3
How many functions of command in the ICS
9
What year was the 5 step size up process published
1953
What year was the first fully paid fire department
1853
What percent of fire departments provide paramedics
0.16
Latent conditions
Understaffing
How many steps r in the budget cycle
6
What date does the fiscal year start
44378
Ordinance is
Law enacted by a local authorized subdivision of a state
What incident management system was developed in 1970 for day to day fire department incidents
FGC
Yellow dog contract
Pledges that employers required workers to sign indicating they would not join a union
How many steps in a budget cycle
6
First paid on call department
Boston Massachusetts
Best describe integrity
Complex system of inherent attributes that determine a persons mora and ethical actions
Northouse 5 leadership traits
Intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, sociability
What is it called when a firefighter knows what he doesn’t know
Conscious incompetence
Which of the following is not a physical element noted during preincident planning
Contact info
Describe Standard operating Procedures
Written organizational directive that establishes or prescribes specific operational methods to be followed
What organization is responsible for evacuation notification of an emergency
Office of emergency management
What did the joint council evolve into
NBFSPQ
