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Police Org And ADM chap1
Chapter 1 Police org and Adm quiz 9/19/2012
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 3
09/17/2012

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Authority 
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is the power to enforce laws, exact obedience and command.

 

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To manage 

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means to control and direct, to administer, and to take charge of. Managers must also support the development of individual responsibility.

 

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Responsibility

 

Definition

means being answerable, liable or accountable.

 

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Delegation, or transferring authority 

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is a necessary and often difficult aspect of management because it requires placing trust in other to do the job as well as, or better than, the manager would do it.

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Technical skills 

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include all the procedures necessary to be a successful police officer: interviewing and interrogation, searching, arresting, and gathering evidence and so on.

 

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Administrative skills 

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include organizing, delegating and directing the work of others. Writing proposals, formulation work plans, establishing policies and procedures and developing budgets are also included.

 

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Conceptual skills 

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include the ability to problem solve, plan and see the big picture and how all the pieces within it fit. 

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People skills 

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include being able to communicate clearly, to motivate, to discipline appropriately and to inspire. Working effectively with managers up the chain of commands, as well as with the general public are also included.

 

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Drucker
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 developed and is credited with first using the term management by objectives (MBO) in the early 1950s.

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The watchword 
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of TQM is zero defects.

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The first group of leadership researchers, 
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the trait theorists, examined the individual. They looked at leaders in industry and government to determine what special characteristics or traits these people possessed.

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Situational leadership 
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specifies that initially workers need support and direction 
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Transformational leadership 
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which treats employees as the organization’s most valuable asset.

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Followerships 
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which a leader cannot simply tell people they are empowered and expect them to instantly know how to perform.

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 Laissez

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Faire Leadership implies nonintervention and is almost a contradiction in terms. Let everything run itself without direction from the leader, who exerts little or no control.

 

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Autocratic Leadership 
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Managers make decisions without participant input; completely authoritative, showing little or no concern for subordinates.

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Consideration Structure 
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Looks at establishing the relationship between the group and the leader.

 

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Dispersed Leadership  

Definition

The 21st century trend to not tie leadership to rank, but rather to instill leadership qualities throughout the department.

 

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Initiating Structure 

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Looks at how leaders assign tasks. 
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Leadership
Definition

Influencing, working with and through individuals and groups to accomplish a common goal.

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Management 
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The process of combining resources to accomplish organizational goals 
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Management by Objectives (MBO) 

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Involves managers and subordinates setting goals and objectives together and then tracking performance to ensure that the objectives are met.

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Mechanistic Model 
Definition
Divides tasks into highly specialized jobs where job holders become experts in their field, demonstrating the “one best way” to perform their cog in the wheel (Taylorism); the opposite of the organic model. 
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Micromanagement 
Definition

Over supervising, providing oversight with excessive control and attention to details better left to the operational personnel.

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Organic Model 
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– A flexible, participatory, science-based structure that will accommodate change; designed for effectiveness in serving the needs of citizens rather than the autocratic rationality of operation; the opposite of the mechanistic model.

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Seagull Management 
Definition

 Manager hears something’s wrong, flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everybody and flies away.

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Supervision 
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 Overseeing the actual work being done.

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Total Quality Management (TQM) 
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 Deming’s theory that managers should create constancy of purpose for improvement of product and service, adopt the new philosophy, improve constantly, institute modern methods of supervision, drive fear from the workplace, break down barriers between staff areas, eliminate numerical goals for the work force, remove barriers that rob people of pride of workmanship and institute a vigorous program of education and training.

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Wallenda Effect 
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– The negative consequences of fear of failure.

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Peter Drucker (1909-2005)

Definition
became influential, asserting the productivity was the result of self-starting, self-direct workers who accepted responsibility
Drucker developed and credited with the first using term management by objectives (MBO) in early 1950s
his theory can be summed up as "Expect to get the right things done"
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W. Edward Deming (1900-1993) 
Definition

a management expert who assisted Japanese businesses in recovering and prospering following the end of WW2.theory that managers should create constancy of purpose  for improvement of product and serivce, adopt the new philosophy, improve constantly? institute modern methods of training on job, institute modern methods of supervision methods of supervision drive fear from workplace break down barriers between staff areas....


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Peter Drucker and W. Edward Deming   their influence on approaches to management in Policing.
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both guys had a great influence on approaches
manga meant in policing. Managemt by (objectives ) MBO involves
managers and subordinates setting goals and objectives together and then tracking performance to ensure that the objectives are met
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