Review Answer Book Flashcards
These are the plans that are guides to personnel in activities such as deployment and distribution of personnel or the search for suspect lost persons 
Operational plans
These plans are designed to give guidance and direction to personnel in the performance of normal police activities
Operational plans
While the jobs deal primarily with the directing of subordinates, supervisors must also concern themselves with the _______ of the organization involving concrete matters, such as environmental working conditions, or the provisions of equipment, and those more abstract factors, such as morale and esprit de corps
internal conditions
These are plans consisting of a set of BROAD PRINCIPLES that guide personnel in the accomplishment of general organizational practices
Policies
This is a PERPETUAL FUNCTION that is accomplished by providing CLEAR CUT LINES OF AUTHORITY . It is a supervisors responsibility to AMELIORATE problems in this area when they arise.
Organizing
What function involves not only PUTTING A PREPARED PLAN INTO OPERATION, but also following through with OBSERVATION AND INSPECTION to determine that the work load was properly done
Directing
This requires much of the supervisors time and requires accomplishing effective action through the judicious use of AUTHORITY, COMMON SENSE and PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Directing
Span of control broadens at the lower levels, depending on:
- capacity of the supervisor
- Complexity of the work
- Type of work
In this organizational structure, authority is definite and absolute
Line organization
The supervisor can reduce his span of control if he delegates by:
- clearly defining Tasks
- Properly communicating instructions
- Practicing completed staff projects
The practice of delegation contributes to the development of subordinates to perform the supervisors job in his absence. A program of this nature is called:
- executive development
- Supervisory development
- Personal development
What is the key to the effect of application of the exception principal?
Training
This principle requires that the only thing left to be done by the person who delegated the assignment is to approve it
Completed staff projects
The exception principal is inseparable from the principle of:
Delegation
What principle states that the head of an organization should act only on those matters that require his personal attention? This is inseparable from the principle of delegation.
Exception principle
The most important benefit provided by the democratic or participatory style of leadership is
The increased commitment employees have to organizational goals
Hershey and Blanchard developed ________ leadership to help supervisors, understand how to diagnose situations and then apply the correct management style for maximum results.
situational
Workers are both unable to do the job and unwilling to try the leader use which leadership style ? which is HIGH in task behavior and LOW in relationship behavior
Leader shipstyle 1 (telling)
According to McGregor, ______ leaders make contact with others for the purpose of the exchange of valued things
transactional