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Police Admin and Organization Review
About Leadership Skills and Planning
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Criminology
Undergraduate 2
11/02/2010

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Term
What are things listed in the text regarding responsibilities of police leaders?
Definition
Fulfilling the mission of the police department, making work productive and helping subordinates to achieve, and producing impacts
Term
Power motivation
Definition
refers to the reasons, intentions, and objectives that underlay a police mangers' use of power
Term
Recognize a police leader using socialized power
Definition
the need to influence another's behavior for the common good of the police department. 
Term
What are the 3 components to the leadership mix?
Definition

A. Human Relation skills

B. Conceptual Skills

C. Technical Skills

Term
Style of leadership refers to what?
Definition
Authoritarian, Democrat, Laissez-faire
Term
recognize the best and the worst styles on the grid
Definition

Best: Team Management, Organizational Man Management

Worst: Country Club Management, Authority-Obedience Management, and Impoverished Management

Term
Competition differs from conflict how?
Definition
In competition both parties have to abide by the same rules where in conflict they don't
Term
The single most important human relation skill is what?
Definition
Communication
Term
What values do transformational leaders emphasize?
Definition
Justice, Liberty, and Equality
Term
Stated Simply, planning can be defined as what?
Definition
A process that links present actions to future conditions
Term
What type of planning breaks problems down and makes gradual changes over time?
Definition
Synoptic Planning
Term
What's the first step in strategic analysis?
Definition
Making suitable studies to all alternatives
Term
Your chief asks you to develop a plan to handle hostage situations, This is what type of plan?
Definition
Incremental
Term
What type of plans cover a variety of topics, such as agency goals and allocation of resources
Definition
Transactive
Term
If time is not limited, brain storming sessions should last how long?
Definition
40 minutes to an hour
Term
What is the most powerful source of power in a group decision making process?
Definition
the greater total of knowledge and information
Term
The concept of brain storming was initially developed to do what?
Definition
For individuals to present their ideas in a group setting without fear of criticism from their peers unless it directly improves the original idea
Term
What is cognitive nearsightedness?
Definition
The human tendency is to make decisions that satisfy immediate needs and to brush aside doubts of their long range doubts. 
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