Exam 14: Special Challenges Labor Relations, liability, and Discipline

As depicted in a figure contained in the chapter,a police agency's chief executive officer-police chief or sheriff-should always sit at the bargaining table,representing/fighting for management.

Failure to act on ______________quickly may result in serious morale problems within an agency.

Which of the following is not a type of job action?

What are some of the main principles of shared governance involving the "navigating the waters" of unionization?

A special relationship can be based on:

What is positive (progressive)discipline? What would be an example of how it functions?

The standard often used by courts to determine liability of corrections personnel is whether an act or failure to act created an unusual risk to an inmate.

Which of the following is not one of the four principles of collective bargaining?

Anonymous complaints are the least difficult to investigate and tend to have a neutral impact on employee morale because officers may view them as a nuisance.

Most complaints involve serious acts of physical violence,excessive force,or corruption.

Which of the following is not a disciplinary action commonly used by agencies?

A(n)___________ complaint occurs when a written,signed,and/or tape-recorded statement of the allegation is made and the complainant requests to be informed of the outcome.

The doctrine of respondeat superior means:

A majority of employees signing cards to recognize a union is defined as "50 percent plus one."

A ________ ___ ____ ____________signals employees' collective displeasure with the chief administrator of the agency.

Which of the following is an important requisite of a disciplinary policy?

The "public duty doctrine" is derived from _______________ and says that police have ______________________________ unless a "special relationship" is present.

Which of the following is not true concerning correctional unions?

Thus far,courts have not found the design of detention facilities or the behavior of jail personnel after an inmate's suicide to be a source of negligence or breach of duty.

Even if a prisoner's suicide is not "reasonably foreseeable," the jailer owes the prisoner a duty of care to help prevent that suicide.