Leadership

Question 1

Give 2 definitions of leadership?

Answer 1

Relating the police department to the larger environment such as city council.

Influencing officers to use their energies willingly to facilitate the department’s goals the department’s goals

(RELATING TO, DEPARTMENT’S GOALS)

Question 2

Explain Leading and managing as codependent skill set.

Answer 2

Administrators must be both leaders and managers. Leadership and management skills are usually not equal instead they were represent a mix.

Question 3

Provide 4 of 7 key characteristics of effective senior police leaders.

Answer 3

• Ethical behavior
• Trustworthiness
• Legitimacy
• Being a role model
• Communication
• Decision making
• Strategic thinking ability

Question 4

List 3 of 5 key activities of effective senior police leaders..

Answer 4

• Create a shared vision.
• Engendering organizational commitment
• Caring for subordinates
• Driving change
• Problem solving

Question 5

Distinguish between rational legal authority and power.

Answer 5

• Rational legal authority is a grant of authority made by an organization.
• Power is a grant made by the lead

Question 6

Compare socialized and personalized power needs.

Answer 6

• Socialised has a positive impact on the police department.

- Personalised is the need to be in control and selfish.

Question 7

Identify the 3 components of the leadership skill mix.

Answer 7

• Human Relations
• Conceptual Skills
• Technical Skills

Question 8

State the 2 “Great Man” theories.

Answer 8

Gifted people make history

VS

Events produce a “Great Man”

Question 9

Define the big 5.

Answer 9

Efforts to find a small number of broad traits into which many specific traits can be placed.

Question 10

Briefly describe Organizational Citizenship Behavior OCB.

Answer 10

Things employees do voluntarily that contribute to the overall organizational effectiveness.

Question 11

Distinguish among Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-faire leadership.

Answer 11

• Authoritarian “My way or the highway”
• Democratic “Let’s talk about it”
• Laissez-faire “Whatever”

Question 12

Describe Downs four leader styles

Answer 12

1. Climbers- Motivated by power and prestige.
2. Conservers- Maintain things the way they are.
3. Zealots- Focus almost exclusively on their special interest.
4. Advocates- Promote everything under their command.

Question 13

Contrast Station House Sergeants versus Street Sergeants

Answer 13

Station House Sergeants
Prefer to work in the office after getting their stripes

Street Sergeants
Receive their stripes while working on the streets.

Question 14

State the 3 organizational forces from Tannenbaum’s Contingency Theory.

Answer 14

• Forces in leaders
• Forces in subordinates
• Forces in the department

Question 15

State the central thought of House’s Path-Goal Theory

Answer 15

Leaders should remove the obstacles that inhibit or prevent individual followers from doing a good job

Question 16

Define the merit of a police officer in Leader Member-Exchange Theory

Answer 16

The officer’s merit is contingent on how well he fits with the values, attitudes, preference and outlook of the leader

Question 17

Compare leadership substitutes and neutralizers

Answer 17

Leadership substitutes are variables that diminish the importance of leadership.

Neutralizers make leadership ineffective or impossible.

Question 18

Contrast transactional leaders and transformational leaders

Answer 18

Transactional leaders give something to get something.

Transformational leaders go beyond their own self interests for the good of the unit

Question 19

The common characteristics shared by new leadership theories attempt to explain how leaders:

Answer 19

• Take organizations on an upward trajectory
• Engender extraordinary levels of follower motivation, trust, dedication and loyalty
• Use emotionally appealing behaviors to rally followers around their vision
• Use leadership to increase followers self esteem, job satisfaction and performance in performance