CJUS 300 Quiz Cumulative
CJUS 300 Quiz: Cumulative
Module 1: Week 1 — Module 8: Week 8
- Increased police teamwork, innovation, and interest are three unintended benets of COMPSTAT.
- According to Freakonomics, tougher gun control laws did not contribute to the drop in crime in the early 1990s.
- The SARA problem-solving model supports a management by objectives program.
- Top-down management depends on an agile organization for mission fulfillment.
- Experience has shown that as people’s knowledge of the police function increases, their respect for the police function decreases.
- Pro-steering refers to an accountability system for moving projects to completion.
- Most police agencies are driven by performance measures that capture only a part of the value they are contributing to their community.
- Organizations are social units that have been deliberately constructed to seek specific goals.
- The main distinguishing characteristic from one organization to another is its use of “control.”
- Stretch cannot occur in a team environment where everyone is totally committed to a rigid set of core values.
- Community policing addresses the significant concerns of the community as well as the serious crime problems identified by police.
- Police managers tend to request more staff because of a magical thousand-per-officer standard.
- Oversight by city councils, courts, and the media is one of the four types of yardsticks used to measure police performance values.
- COP and POP target crime control but add a strong commitment to order, maintenance, and prevention by analysis.
- According to management by objectives (MBO), feedback is a greater motivator of employees than is empowerment.
- A successful MBO program is one that sparks questions as well as provides answers.
- In COP programs, officers control crime; citizens are the catalysts.
- The symptoms of crime are focused on in POP, while searching for root causes are avoided.
- Exceeding the line of 150 staff in a police department can help avoid big downside problems.
- Problem-oriented policing emphasizes the value of being able to diagnose the continuing problems underlying repeated incidents reported to the police.
- In a bureaucratic organization, the manger is the boss and authority trickles down from there.
- Traditional policing targets perpetrators being reformed and released back into the community.
- In summary, COP is creating a customer experience that is valued to the point that the community endorses it.
- The police and their community require high-quality measures of police performance to determine whether the department is achieving intended results.
- When we disperse power, self-control is required.
- Seeking first to understand leads people to close off options.
- Budgets are considered static because they are inflexible.
- Examples of environmental stressors might include a sexual disorder or grief over the loss of a loved one.
- Trust is a moral duty.
- The two types of proprietary funds are enterprise funds and special revenue funds.
- One type of feedback is event-triggered.
- According to the text, leadership and team leadership are identical.
- The police labor movement grew out of circumstances very different from those that triggered the birth of industrial unions decades earlier.
- “Program” and “results-oriented” budgets are the same type.
- A committed group is at the beginning stage of feeling the need for shared goals.
- A budget is basically an action plan.
- Subformal communications do not supply an effective way for subordinates to speak more freely to managers.
- Goal setting and change have little in common.
- Normal behavioral guidelines are fuzzy in ethical dilemmas.
- The integrity of a team leader is a foundational driving force.
- Unless prohibited by law, officers rising through the ranks may retain association/union memberships.
- Time is an inelastic resource.
- “Leaking” budget information to influential citizens before presenting it to elected legislative bodies is recommended, because support for new programs can be gained.
- According to the text, blame alone can paralyze teams into inaction.
- Study sessions provide citizens with an opportunity to comment on priorities.
- Strict use of formal communication channels will increase mutual trust.
- While it is recommended for chiefs to be involved in negotiation processes, they should not be involved directly in contract negotiations.
- Empowerment means giving away the decision.
- What gets measured gets done.
- Fast decisions enhance the empowerment of people.
- A leader’s job is to mold the worker into their job role.
- The budget process is not a political process.
- An estimated 36 percent of the working population is not personally invested in their job.
- The grievance procedure prohibits management and supervisory employees from discussing problems openly as they occur.
- Which of the following is NOT a police value from COP?
- Community-oriented policing and problem solving (COPPS) is equal to ________ plus management by objectives.
- Whereas the twentieth century concluded with government agencies emphasizing process outputs and correcting weaknesses, the twenty- first century has opened with a push for ________, ________, and
- Which essential POP component requires that an agency find tailor- made methods of resolving problems?
- Levitt and Dubner in Freakonomics show that economics is a study of
- A police department is practicing problem-oriented policing or POP when it
- Which is NOT a component of the problem-solving model SARA?
- Decisions about police values are best guided by ________ in consultation with
- Which of the following is a characteristic of a bottom-up organization?
- Which of the following is NOT a practical performance measurable for a police department?
- Which of the following is NOT a principled value?
- If control is ________ at the top of an organization, then power is distributed in a top-down, bureaucratic, hierarchical fashion.
- Which of the following is NOT one of the four cornerstones of a bureaucratic organization?
- The technology and techniques for measuring police output are relatively ________ when compared to the normative question of “What do we measure?”
- COMPSTAT is a ________ measuring tool.
- Which of the following is NOT a term police departments use to criticize community feelings as “evaluative findings”?
- Which of the following is the first step of management by objectives?
- Which of the following is characteristic of a top-down organization?
- Which of the following is NOT one of four types of yardsticks to measure police performance?
- COP relies on more ________ involvement whereas POP relies more on ________ problem solving.
- Which of the following is NOT one of the basic tasks of POP?
- So many police officers per thousand population is a(n) _____ staffing formula unless tied to work output and outcome values.
- Which of the following is true of the Rule of 150?
- In community policing, the ________ is dependent upon input from both the police and the community.
- Which of the following pertains more to “team leadership” than to “traditional management”?
- Police agencies that have track records of public support are agencies that are
- The “-pathy” in empathy means ________.
- Which of the following is NOT a time trap?
- Which of the following questions should you ask yourself when faced with a decision that involves ethics?
- Which of the following is NOT a reason for team dysfunction?
- The growing prevalence and power of police unions should be seen as
- What does “above reproach” mean?
- According to MacArthur where is God looking for leaders?
- What is the final entry-level step in the employment process?
- What is a characteristic of the Category B Police Leader?
- When a police agency is operating under the pressure of time, it will use ________ channels.
- Nehemiah is known for what?
- What is “absolutely essential” to good leadership:
- The second foundational leadership principle is a leader takes?
- Technologies like computers and smartphones are here classified as potential ________ stressors.
- Which of the following does NOT describe the Quality of Working Life philosophy of management?
- What does John MacArthur refer to as a “peculiarly satanic sin”?
- When you delegate, you are for certain always delegating which of the following?
- People will not follow their leader if:
- Which of the following would be most likely to lead to financial well- being?