3rd Edition Chapter 7 Leading the Fire Company

Question 1

Described by Gary Yukl as the process by which a person influences others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives?

Answer 1

Leadership

Question 2

Leaders can be effective only to the extent that followers are willing to accept their leadership?

Answer 2

Followership

Question 3

What’s a five step approach to making decisions?

Answer 3

1. Clear your mind
2. List options
3. Weigh the outcomes
4. Make a choice
5. Evaluate decision

Question 4

What are the three major leadership styles?

Answer 4

1. Autocratic
2. Democratic
3. Laissez-Faire

Question 5

This iron-hand approach style of leadership is used when the fire officer needs to maintain high personal control of the group?

Answer 5

Autocratic

Question 6

There are two situations in which an autocratic style of leadership is required?

Answer 6

1. When fire company is involved in a high-risk, emergency scene activity
2. When the fire officer needs to take immediate corrective supervisory activity

Question 7

This consultative approach style of leadership uses all of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the group in determining how to meet an objective or complete a task?

Answer 7

Democratic

Question 8

This style of leadership can be used when planning a project or developing the daily work plan of the company. Also, in some low-risk emergency scene operations?

Answer 8

Democratic

Question 9

This free-rein style of leadership moves the decision making from the fire officer to the individual fire fighters?

Answer 9

Laissez-Faire

Question 10

This is an effective leadership style when working with experienced fire fighters and when handling routine duties that pose little personal hazard?

Answer 10

Laissez-Faire

Question 11

The capacity of one party to influence another party?

Answer 11

Power

Question 12

What was one of the first works on the management of power?

Answer 12

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532

Question 13

What are the different types of power described by French and Raven in the 1959 Studies of Social Power?

Answer 13

1. Legitimate Power
2. Reward Power
3. Expert Power
4. Referent Power
5. Coercive Power

Question 14

The target person believes that the agent has the right to make the request and the target person has the obligation to comply?

Answer 14

Legitimate Power

Question 15

The target person complies in order to obtain rewards believed to be controlled by the agent?

Answer 15

Reward Power

Question 16

The target person complies due to a belief that the agent has special knowledge?

Answer 16

Expert Power

Question 17

The target complies due to admiration of or identification with the agent and seeks approval?

Answer 17

Referent Power

Question 18

The target person complies in order to avoid punishment believed to be controlled by the agent?

Answer 18

Coercive Power

Question 19

Professor Gary A. Yukl at the University of Albany updated the French and Raven Studies of Social Power into two types?

Answer 19

Personal Power and Positional Power

Question 20

Personal Power includes what two types of power from Studies of Social Power and reflects the effectiveness of the individual?

Answer 20

1. Expert Power

2. Referent Power

Question 21

This type of power is defined by the role an individual has within the organization?

Answer 21

Positional Power

Question 22

Positional power includes what three types of power from Studies of Social Power?

Answer 22

1. Legitimate Power
2. Reward Power
3. Coercive Power

Question 23

What are two additional position-based powers provided by Professor Yukl?

Answer 23

1. Information Power

2. Ecological Power

Question 24

This type of power is based on the target person’s assessment of the agent’s ability to rapidly and efficiently discover or obtain relevant information, usually through a cultivated network of sources?

Answer 24

Information Power

Question 25

Control over the physical environment, technology, or organization of work. The target person’s behavior is based on perceptions of opportunities and constraints?

Answer 25

Ecological Power

Question 26

For departments that have broad SOPs or none at all, the fire officer has two choices in assigning tasks?

Answer 26

Pre-Assigning them or assigning them as needed on the scene

Question 27

What are two obligations required from companies operating within a hot zone or burning structure during a mayday?

Answer 27

1. Maintain radio discipline so that command can determine the mayday location and situation
2. Maintain company or group integrity

Question 28

The basic leadership concepts prevail when considering two unique challenges?

Answer 28

1. Fire station as a work location

2. Leading a volunteer fire company

Question 29

What are two general house rules for nonemergency activities that the fire officer should establish?

Answer 29

1. Do not compromise the ability of the fire company to respond to emergencies in its district
2. Do not jeopardize the public’s trust in the fire department