Finals Flashcards

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Implies responsibility for outcome and accountability to success and failure of results

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Authority

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Supervisor’s right to command and the subordinates’ acceptance of the superiors’ right to command.

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Authority

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3
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The right to make decisions and take actions

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Authority

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4
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The process of assigning tasks responsibility and granting authority to ensure that tasks are accomplished.

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Delegation of authority

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5
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Expectation that each employee must accept credit or blame for results achieved in performing assigned tasks.

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Accountability

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6
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The employee’s obligation to perform assigned tasks

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Responsibility

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7
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Provide time and adequate feedback to enable subordinates to compare their performance to agree on standards and to correct their deficiencies.

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Establish adequate control

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Appraise delegated responsibilities and provide training aimed at building on strengths and overcoming deficiencies.

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Provide training

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9
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Let subordinate carry the work through completion. The leader’s job is to provide guidance, helps and inform

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Require completed work

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10
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Subordinates must be involved in decision-making by keeping them informed and helping them improve.

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Involve subordinate – motivate subordinates

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Subordinates should clearly understand the work and the authority delegated to them, recognize such responsibility and accept accountability for results.

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Define authority and responsibility

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12
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Subordinates should participate in developing the objectives they are expected to meet and agree on standards that will measure their performance

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Establish objectives and standard

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13
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The act of influencing, directing, guiding and controlling others to obtain obedience, confidence, respect and loyal cooperation of subordinate to achieve a certain goal.

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Leadership

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14
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to guide; to make go

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Leadership

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15
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3 types of LEADERSHIP STYLE

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AUTOCRATIC STYLE
DEMOCRATIC STYLE (PARTICIPATIVE
FREE REIGN (LAISSEZ FAIRE)

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16
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Avoid power and responsibility
Individual goals and work for its own problem
Train themselves and provide their own motivation
The leader just allow his followers to do what they want

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FREE REIGN (LAISSEZ FAIRE)

17
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Decentralized authority
Consultation with followers and participation by them
Employees can express ideas and move by group
Practice the philosophy of management

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DEMOCRATIC STYLE (PARTICIPATIVE

18
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Centralized power and decision making
Positive when leader gives reward
Based on threats and punishments or through fear
Advantage is to provide strong motivation and reward for the leader; quick decision for all the group
Disadvantage is people dislike it.

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AUTOCRATIC STYLE

19
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4 TYPES OF POWER

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  1. Legitimate power
  2. Organizational power
  3. Coercive power
  4. Reward power
20
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remunerative power. This power is based on the ability to give something to value to others.

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Reward power

21
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based on fear of the person holding the power. The true strength of this power base is directly related to the amount of harm the person holding the power can inflict.

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Coercive power

22
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is that portion of an organization’s power that has been delegated to a person in order to provide administrative force. Such power is exercise through the auspices of the organization. The amount of legitimate power available is totally dependent on the amount of overall power available to the organization.

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Legitimate power

23
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derives from the authority base of the agency itself. The power to reward and punish is provided to management so that the goals of the organization can be met. This power is legal and measurable

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Organizational power

24
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6 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES

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  1. Respond
  2. Regulate
  3. Restrain
  4. Recover
  5. Repress
  6. Reinforce
25
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This activity is designed to reinforce good citizenship and respect for the law and to encourage citizens aid and assists officers and the agency.

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Reinforce

26
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It has become accepted that there are two important elements necessary for a crime to take place. First, the individual must have the desire to commit the crime; second, the opportunity must present itself for the satisfaction of this desire. Police have traditionally attempted to prevent crime by reducing the opportunity of the individual to commit the crime. The random patrol concept is justified by many police managers as a means of reaching the end.
Reinforce

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Repress

27
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major effort by the police is the recovery of stolen property and its return to the citizens. Sting operations in which a police agency sets up a phony fencing business to entice criminals to sell their stolen goods, result in the arrest of criminals and some of their fences. Millions of dollars in stolen goods are given back to the citizens in the course of operations. This is one area in which the police provide a very useful service to the community and do recover considerable property of value, reducing insurance and personal losses.

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Recover

28
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represent some of the traditional purposes for police, the apprehension of criminals. It should also include restraint of mentally ill persons and the prevention of one citizen from annoying or doing damage to another.

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Restrain

29
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Consider a long line of cars wending its way through the city streets with a funeral hearse in front and police vehicle escort. Consider too, vehicles parked at field days, ice cream socials and ball games that require the police for traffic and crowd control. Police are also used as bodyguards and chauffeurs for visiting dignitaries and even some mayors. These are traditionally non-criminal police activities, and regulations are necessary to prevent crises in our communities.

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Regulate

30
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Most police activities are reactions to call for service. Police must also deal with on-scene confrontations, hostage situations, battered children, family arises and the mentally ill, all of which call for reaction response by the officers’ concern. Many of these situations are highly dangerous and call for split second response by highly trained professional police officers. Traditionally, police respond after a crime has occurred and there is a victim. And as has been noted, victims are more hostile to the police after having been the target of a crime, even if the criminal is apprehended.

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Respond