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Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 6 Job design in criminal justice organizations is dependent on the functionality of proper recruitment, training, and development for community needs. True or False (Answer: True) Job design refers to planning for structural and social aspec...

Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations: Chapter 6 Job design in criminal justice organizations is dependent on the functionality of proper recruitment, training, and development for community needs. True or False (Answer: True) Job design refers to planning for structural and social aspects that is vital for the efficacy of an employee. True or False (Answer: True) Listed below are all psychological job requirements that are correlated with working in criminal justice organizations, except for: (Answer: C) An optimal level of variety A sense that one’s work meaningfully contributes to social welfare A happy life Adequate elbow room In Taylor’s Scientific Management (1947) most people are unmotivated by work itself but are motivated by leisure and increases in pay. True or False (Answer: True) In the field of criminal justice, policing has been described as a __________ occupation. De-professionalization Syndrome Taylorized Desirable None of the above (Answer: B) Taylorism in criminal justice suggests that decreased discretion and increased control has been referred to as: De-professionalization Syndrome Taylorized Desirable None of the above More than ____ percent of American workers report general satisfaction with their jobs. 95% 65% 85% 35% (Answer: C) Research conducted within criminal justice organizations suggests that ______ workers as the most dissatisfied workers because they are concerned with job design issues. Male Elders Youth Female (Answer: C) Police officers and correctional officers experience physical and psychological reactions to the intense work environment which has been defined as a syndrome of emotional___________ and ___________: A. Stress B. Exhaustion C. Cynicism D. Both A, B E. Both B, C F. Both A,C (Answer: E) _________ factors are leading causes of stress and burnout among criminal justice employees. (Answer: Organizational) Problem-Oriented Policing is when police officers work with citizens in innovative ways to address crime. True or False (Answer: True) The Hawthorne Effect suggests that having research conducted and, increased attention from management could lead to temporary increases in _________. (Answer: B) Crime Productivity Efficiency Job Status According to Herzberg the ___________ theory states that there are two motivating factors for workers, hygiene factors and motivators. Job Design Motivation-Hygiene Taylorism None of the above In order to prevent dissatisfaction in the workplace Motivation-Hygiene Theory states that all these external factors need to be met, except? Pay Supervision Physical Health Interpersonal Relations (Answer: C) Herzberg stated that motivators include responsibility, recognition, and opportunities for achievement and growth. True or False (Answer: True) Job Design theory is only concerned with improved efficiency and not with motivating employees by meeting their higher-order needs. True or False (Answer: False) According to Hackman and Oldham (1987), all of these are core job dimensions except? Skill Variety Task Significance Feedback Dichotomy (Answer: D) This core job dimension states that the degree of freedom, independence, and discretion provided by a job is known as____________? (Answer: D) Task Identity Skill Variety Feedback Autonomy Job analysis is the study of work assignments with the goal of specifying the precise skills and training needed for the work. True or False (Answer: True) The purpose of job redesign is to reduce and eliminate assembly lines. True or False (Answer: True) According to Robbins and Judge (2007) there are work arrangements that may enrich the work setting, which is not one of them? (Answer: A) Redesigning Flextime Job Sharing Telecommuting Criminal justice job have been enriched by increasing the responsibility of frontline staff, this process is known as? (Answer: C) Job Enrichment Job Enlargement Vertical Loading None of the above Model of Team Policing is composed of all of these factors except? (Answer: D) Police generalists provide services to designated neighborhoods Teams are composed of officers of equal rank Officers are assigned to small geographical areas for extended periods of time Officers restrict residents from becoming involved in policing procedures Skolnick and Bayley (1986) argue that new professionalism, a form of team policing is rooted from a service-oriented style. True or False (Answer: True) It is important for criminal justice personnel to be aware of the challenges that diversity will bring to criminal justice organizations. True or False (Answer: True) The new criminal justice organizations are considered to be closed systems because they limit communication with communities in which they serve. True or False (Answer: False) The most significant source of improving efficiency of criminal justice agencies extends from the collaboration, information sharing, and dissemination and innovation supported by research and practice. True or False (Answer: True) Under the new criminal justice job design, organizations will have to open up further to their communities to become more efficient. True or False (Answer: True) With increased training and knowledge as a perquisite for employment in new criminal justice organizations; this will bring changes to the regulations for organizations, divisions of labor, employee supervision and organizational structure. True or False (Answer: True) Although, redesigning criminal justice jobs has shown positive responses, the traditional approaches of designing criminal justice jobs will always be the most effective. True or False (Answer: False) Test Bank: Organizational