Chapter 1 Leadership

Question 1

_______ specifies a series of skills to be acquired if an individual is to rise for the fire officer ranks

Answer 1

NFPA 1021

Question 2

A correlation exists between diminished leadership skills and _______ danger to both the members of the fire service and the citizens who expect to be protected by the fire service.

Answer 2

Increased

Question 3

_______ is a participative process that gives the person to whom a task has been delegated a wide latitude to make the decisions necessary to accomplish that task

Answer 3

Delegation

Question 4

An organizational philosophy characterized by flexible, integrative behavior

Answer 4

adhocracy

Question 5

Management is more in alignment with transactional leadership, whereas leaders are more _______ in nature

Answer 5

Transformational