Chapter 9- Police Administration Flashcards
Human Resource Management
23 functions a police human resource unit performs:
- Completing with Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST) requirements and guidelines
- Maintaining currency with federal job discrimination laws
- Developing agency HR policies, subject to executive approval
- Recruiting and selecting sworn and civilian personnel
- Monitoring turnover, retention, and diversity
- Providing or contracting for psychological services
- Delivering or arranging for academy
- Conducting special studies (staffing, benefits, etc)
- Benefits programs (health and life insurance)
- Payroll
- Labor relations
- Random drug screening
- Administering promotional testing
- Managing intern programs
- Advising commander on personnel matters
- Coordinating the employee evaluation process
- Organizing promotions and awards ceremonies
- Considering off duty work
- Directing professional standards/internal adders
- Acting as personnel records custodian
- Preparing content for agency website
- Conducting job exit interviews to identify factors associated with turnover
- Serving as liaison to the central personnel office.
Main objectives of the Equal Pay Act:
Eliminate discrimination in wages based on gender
Describe how age discrimination in employment act is applied to law enforcement agencies:
ADEA has a law enforcement exemption provision; local units of government can refuse to hire a person for a sworn position if the applicant is over their maximum age for hiring and the refusal to hire was part of a bona fide hiring or retirement plan and not a subterfuge to evade ADEA’s purpose.
Explain the four major theories of discrimination:
- Disparate treatment: person must have been intentionally treated differently based on his/her membership in a protected class
- Adverse impact
- Harassment:
- Retalitation
Name and explain two categories of sexual discrimination:
- Quid pro quo- an exchange or literally “something for something”
- Hostile environment, which is created when the prohibited and unwelcome behavior has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work performance or by creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment
Summarize the protection afforded by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act:
makes it illegal to discriminate in employment practices against a woman because of pregnancy childbirth, or medical conditions arising from such…like breastfeeding :)
Define disability and reasonable accommodations:
Disability: a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities 2) record of such impairment 3) perception that a person has such an impairment.
Reasonable accommodation: any change in the work environment or in the way things are customarily done that enables an individual to enjoy equal employment opportunities.
Discuss the law enforcement exemption of Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA):
Law enforcement agencies may request genetic information from employees to determine if they have contaminated forensic evidence and to identity human remains.
Contrast exempt and nonexempt employees:
Employees are grouped into two categories for purposes of overtime pay: 1. non- the group that IS entitled to overtime pay 2. exempt- the group that is NOT.
List the four reasons for which leave may be taken under the Family Medical Leave Act:
- the birth and care of the newborn child of the employee
- placement with the employee of an adoptive or foster child
- care of an immediate family member, spouse, child, or parent, with a serious health condition
- medical work when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition
Describe how the economy affects recruiting applicants:
in a good economy the applicant pool is shallow, and in a down cycle, there are more quality applicants
Define validity and reliability:
Validity: test actually measures what it is intended to measure and conclusions and decisions are based on tests scores are therefore appropriate and meaningful
Reliability: if the same test was given again or un a parallel form to the same group of people, they would score close to the same. Consistency
Explain the meaning of discipline and progressive discipline:
core meaning is instruction
progressive: incrementally increasing more serious penalties for transgressions
Four possible outcome in a professional standards/internal affairs investigation:
- unfounded
- exonerated
- not sustained
- sustained
How does a discipline matrix work:
formal schedule for disciplinary actions, specifying both the presumptive or presumed sanction to be imposed for misconduct and any reduction or increase in the presumptive sanction for mitigating or aggravating factors.
