Exam 2: Administration, Authority, and Command

A critical function of the _____________ level is to align the department's mission, goals, and objectives with its operational accomplishments.

Effective organizations are ones in which:

Strategic management depends upon the empowerment of middle managers and supervisors.

For an authority relationship to exist and be effective, what must be present?

Executives and middle managers expect supervisors to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT:

In the majority of police departments, hierarchical structure delineates

Setting direction through leadership, authority, motivation, and empowerment is:

Behavioral approaches used by supervisors to influence employees are:

The areas of responsibility at the core of the police executive's role include all of the following EXCEPT:

Direction is set through leadership, authority, motivation, and empowerment.

Police departments, through the use of strategic management techniques, are creating open-system adaptive-learning organizations.

The Task Force on 21st Century Policing noted that a fundamental responsibility of all police executives is to consistently evaluate their organization's arrest productivity.

What type of supervisor is directive, task-oriented, and command-and-control-oriented?

Commanding involves the structuring of an organization and deployment of resources necessary to establish accountability, workload, and resource distribution.