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Supervision of Police Personnel Name: Class: Chapter 2 Please use a pencil to complete the test. Print your name on the Name line above. Read the instructions for each section carefully. When you have completed the test, place your test face down on your d...

Supervision of Police Personnel Name: Class: Chapter 2 Please use a pencil to complete the test. Print your name on the Name line above. Read the instructions for each section carefully. When you have completed the test, place your test face down on your desk and raise your hand. 1. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which term below is BEST defined whenever there are two or more persons associated in doing something? Organization Group Team Structure 2. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what must be provided so that the necessary coordination of human effort can be achieved? Management and Supervision Leadership and Administration Direction and control Control and leadership 3. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the major portion of the supervisor’s job may be categorized into three broad areasthat include all of the following, except: Directing Leading Coordinating Controlling J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 1 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 4. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following terms listed in Gulick’s POSDCORB can BEST be described as working out in broad outline the things that need to be done and the methods for doing them to accomplish the purpose set for the enterprise? Organizing Planning Staffing Directing 5. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the continuous task of taking decisions and embodying them in specific and general orders and instructions and serving as the leader of the enterprise most closely describes what portion of Gulick’s POSCORB? Organizing Directing Reporting Planning 6. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _________ is the establishment of the formal structure of authority through which work subdivisions are arranged, defined, and coordinated for the defined objective as listed in Gulick’s POSCORB. Coordinating Planning Reporting Organizing J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 2 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 7. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following is at the heart of efficiency, since it provides the framework for organizationby specifying what should be done to meet objectives, and who should do the work? Good Budgeting Good reporting Good Coordination Good Planning 8. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what type of plans that relate to SOP’s are useful as guides to personnel in such activities as serving and processing arrest warrants, recording and processing crime or incident reports and processing traffic citations? Tactical Auxiliary Service Plans Procedural Operational 9. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what type of plans are those that are prepared to meet exigencies encountered by police, such as widespread civil disorders, unusual crime problems, civil defense needs, or major disasters? Operational Auxiliary Service Plans Procedural Tactical J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 3 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 10. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, a lack of ________ will cause authority to be weakened, delegation to be impaired, and the whole process of direction to become more difficult. Coordinating human effort Embracing the exception principle Follow-up Reporting to superiors 11. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what essential activity is difficult, even almost impossible in any effective degree, if the common objectives of the organization are not accepted by those who are expected to act in unison? Communication with others Coordination of effort Cooperation with individuals Delegation of assignments 12. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what type of organization, in its pure form, is rarely found in present day organizations except at or near top levels? Military Military Line and staff Functional 13. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following requires that every employee be under the direct command of one superior? Span of Control The Exception Principle Unified Command Unified Command J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 4 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 14. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following applies to those who are commanded, not those who command? Span of Control Unity of Control Unity of Command Unity of Command 15. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following relates to the number of subordinates who can be supervisedeffectively by one supervisor? Span of Command Unity of Control Span of Control Unity of Command 16. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what is an effective limit of span of control at or near the top of an organization? 5-7 12-15 8-10 3-5 17. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following specifies that the head of an organization or unit within it should not find it necessary to act personally on each matter coming under their general jurisdiction? Principle of delegation Exception principle Span of control Unity command J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 5 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 18. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following requires that the person to whom work has been assigned through the delegation process can complete it so that theonly thing left to be done by the person who delegated it is to approve it? Exception principle Principle of Completed Staff projects Unity command Principle of delegation 19. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, ____ refers to the whole personnel function of bringing in and training the staff and maintaining favorable conditions for work. Staffing Coordinating Organizing Planning 20. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following do Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard identify as "the essence of the supervisory function"? control direction planning coordination 21. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following describes the major duties of supervisory personnel? Sir Robert Peel’s Modern-Day Policing Directing, Controlling and Coordinating Rensis Likert’s Supervision and Management Perspective Gulick’s POSDCORB J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 6 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 22. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, Although their job deals primarily with the directing of subordinates, supervisors also must concern themselves with the internal conditions of the organization. Which of those are "concrete factors"? environmental working conditions morale esprit de corps all of the above 23. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, Although their job deals primarily with the directing of subordinates, supervisors also must concern themselves with the internal conditions of the organization. Which of those are "abstract factors"? environmental working conditions provision of equipment morale and esprit de corps all of the above 24. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the all-important duty of interrelating the various parts of the work is known as __________. reporting planning organizing coordinating 25. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following MOST ACCURATELY describes how one keeps themselves and their subordinates informed in accordance with Gulick's POSDCORB? through reporting through staffing and directing records, research and inspection coordination of effort and follow-up J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 7 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 26. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, in the _____ function, supervisors must forecast needs and problems and prepare plans to meet them directing staffing organizing planning 27. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following statements is LEAST accurate? Policies, orders, and plans should be concise and clear while being flexible enough to allow adjustment as conditions dictate. Standing orders and those that are complicated should be written to reduce confusion and misinterpretation. Plans enable the supervisor to make decisions in advance, they are useful whether they are or are not effectively communicated to personnel who are expected to follow them. Whether they are communicated by a manual, written orders, or verbal commands, plans should be explicit and clear. 28. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, ________ plans are those designed to give guidance and direction to personnel in the performance of normal police activities. These are the plans that are guides to personnel in activities such as the deployment and distribution of personnel or the search for suspects or lost persons. Operational Auxiliary Services Tactical Procedural J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 8 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 29. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _________ plans are those that implement normal operations, such as in the recruitment of personnel or public and community relations activities. Operational Tactical Auxiliary Services Fiscal 30. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _______ are plans providing specific guides to conduct and performance. They are parameters for acceptable conduct provided by management Policies Rules and Regulations Procedures Memorandums 31. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _______ are plans consisting of a set of broad principles that guide personnel in the accomplishment of general organizational objectives. These are generally established by top management, although supervisors and unit commanders often establish policies for operation of their particular units. Policies Rules and Regulations Procedures Memorandums J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 9 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 32. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following is often the best means of staffing departments? college internship employment fairs informal recruitment by members through personal contacts police cadet programs and auxiliary police units 33. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the function of providing ________ to subordinates and ____ their activities is one that consumes much of the supervisors’ time direction / evaluation control / supervising supervision / evaluation direction / control 34. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following is MOST ACCURATE regarding supervisors who give orders and then fail to follow up to see if it is carried out? they develop strong bonds with officers due to trust and respect developed the soon abrogate their supervisory authority they get disciplined for failure to supervise they build leaders within the ranks through allowing independent thought 35. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, perhaps no function of management is more important than that of _______ to ensure unity of action not only between individuals but also between organizational units coordination of human effort planning and organization budgeting and finance staffing and organizing J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 10 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 36. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the wise supervisor will develop a friendly rapport with supervisors of related units allied in common purposes within and outside the organization. How may this be accomplished? through records, research and inspection through informal and formal disciplinary methods through informal meetings, formal associations, and maintenance of friendly relations through the establishment of rules, regulations, policy and procedure 37. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following is the simplest and perhaps oldest form and is seldom encountered in any but the smallest of organizations? the straight-line organization the military model organization the line organization the staff centered organization 38. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what is perhaps the greatest advantage to the line-type organization? it is utterly ridiculous the formal structure of authority the coordination of effort within it is utterly simple 39. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what is one disadvantage of a line-type organization? too many officers reporting to one supervisor the supervisor reporting to too many boss' supervisory personnel too often being required to perform duties of a specialist none of the above J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 11 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 40. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the _______ organization divides responsibility and authority among several specialists, such as the person responsible for all training, the employee directing the community relations activities of all units within the department, or the officer having line authority over any employee handling a case involving a juvenile functional line and staff line specialist 41. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, one format in which the functional organization has been very successful is ________. the task force detective bureaus traffic safety units undercover narcotics 42. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what is the greatest and most frequent cause of friction in an organization and one of the most prominent barriers to effective coordination? recognizing that staff supervisors have line command only of those subordinates in their particular unit recognizing that staff supervisors have line command of those subordinates in their particular unit as well as other units according to specialty failing to recognize that staff supervisors have line command only of those subordinates in their particular unit failing to recognize that line supervisors have line command only of those subordinates in their particular unit J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 12 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 43. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following requires assigning to each worker the fewest possible kinds of tasks or operations in order to improve the quality and increase the quantity of work, thereby giving the highest class of work to suit the worker’s natural abilities so the greatest individual productivity possible? principle of specialization and the law of productivity principle of span of control and the law of productivity exception principle and the principle of specialization principle of unity of command and the principle of specialization 44. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following results in delay and confusion because of the bottlenecks the practice causes? exceeding the bounds of effective span of control exceeding the bounds of unity of command not adhering to the exception principle not practicing the principle of delegation 45. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, how can supervisors effectively reduce the span of control? by adhering to best practices as listed in policy and procedure by providing adequate oversight of tasks by delegating work through micromanaging non-performers 46. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the principle of delegation is closely related to ________. the principle of unified command the principle of span of control the principle of unity of command the law of productivity J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 13 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 47. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _________ relates to the process of committing an activity to another’s care. The principle of delegation The principle of unity of command The law of productivity The exception principle 48. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, _________ frees supervisors from many routine tasks and enables them to devote more time to make broader planning activities. following policy and procedure practicing good communication proper follow-up proper delegation 49. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following statements is CORRECT? Delegation is done poorly when supervisors delegate downward more quickly than subordinates learn to delegate upward. Delegation is done poorly when subordinates are allowed to delegate upward more quickly than supervisors learn to delegate downward. Delegation is done correctly when subordinates are allowed to delegate upward more quickly than supervisors learn to delegate downward. Delegation is done correctly when staff members only delegate what they cannot accomplish within 24-hours of receipt. 50. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, which of the following is LEAST ACCURATE when you have a task to delegate? A simple task may be delegated in a simple manner. Delegation may be accomplished by a specific or general directive given either in writing or orally. A complex delegation should be supported by a comprehensive written directive clearly identifying the problem and the procedures to be followed if necessary. All delegation must be accomplished by a specific directive given in writing. J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 14 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com Supervision of Police Personnel 51. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, why do some supervisors demonstrate reluctance to develop subordinates? fear that they will become competitors fear that they will fail fear that the supervisor may not delegate effectively failure to understand their delegation responsibility 52. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, the exception principle is inseparable from ________. the law of productivity the principle of span of control the principle of unified command the principle of delegation 53. According to Supervision of Police Personnel, what is the key to the successful application of the exception principle? delegation training clear policy good communication J. Harris Academy of Police Training - Copyright 2022 page 15 www.JHARRISTRAINING.com