Deck 7: Leadership

Question 1

The reasons, intentions, and objectives that underlie a police manager's use of power refer to:

A) Power seeking.
B) Power affiliation.
C) Power base.
D) Power motivation.

Answer 1

Power motivation.

Question 2

You work in a police department where the chief is very fair-minded and believes in a collaborative approach to problem-solving. This chief prefers to use which type of power?

A) Personalized.
B) Autocratic.
C) Democratic.
D) Laissez-faire.

Answer 2

Democratic.

Question 3

The components of the leadership skill mix are:

A) Human relations, conceptual, and psychological.
B) Empathy, honesty, and trust.
C) Human relations, theoretical, and psychological.
D) Human relations, conceptual, and technical.

Answer 3

Human relations, conceptual, and technical.

Question 4

The chief of police in your city is trying to sort out and interrelate facts, opinions, and rumors about the level of support for a new community policing program. The chief will heavily rely on which skills in the leadership skill mix?

A) Human relations.
B) Social power.
C) Conceptual.
D) Technical.

Question 5

With respect to the work of Lewin, Lippitt, and White, which of the statements below is true?

A) The democratic leader is individual oriented.
B) The laissez-faire leader promotes active participation by subordinates.
C) The quantity of work produced was somewhat greater under the autocratic style.
D) Under the laissez-faire style the work is more satisfying to members of the group.

Question 6

Using Downs' styles as a reference, which style promotes everything under their jurisdiction, tends to develop well-rounded programs, and would oppose changes which would benefit them, but not the organization?

A) Zealots
B) Climbers
C) Clingers
D) Advocates

Question 7

Which of the following values do transformational leaders emphasize?

A) Honesty.
B) Equality.
C) Fairness.
D) All of the above.

Question 8

Which of the following is a role of police chiefs?

A) Preserving the trust and confidence of the public in the department
B) Modeling and communicating values
C) Recognizing and celebrating the achievements of officers
D) All of the above.

Question 9

Which of the following did Weber identify as a source of authority?

A) Charismatic.
B) Traditional authority.
C) Rational-legal.
D) All of the above.

Question 10

The reasons, intentions, and objectives that underlie the use of power is known as:

A) Power motivation.
B) Power rationale.
C) Motivation hypothesis.
D) Human relations.

Question 11

Which of the following is not a component of the leadership skill mix?

A) Conceptual.
B) Technical.
C) Human Relations.
D) Motivation.

Question 12

The ability to recognize different social roles and expected behavior refers to:

A) Social control.
B) Emotional skills.
C) Social skills.
D) Emotional control.

Question 13

Which leadership style is known as the "my way or the highway" leader?

A) Authoritarian.
B) Democratic.
C) Laissez-faire.
D) None of the above.

Question 14

According to Downs, which type of leader behavior promotes everything under their jurisdiction?

A) Climbers.
B) Conservers.
C) Zealots.
D) Advocates.

Question 15

Which of the following is not an organizational force as described in Tannenbaum and Schmidt's contingency theory?

A) Forces in the police leader.
B) Forces in the community.
C) Forces in subordinate officers.
D) Forces in the department.

Question 16

Which of House's leader behaviors consists of planning and coordinating the work of subordinates?

A) Supportive.
B) Value based.
C) Work facilitation.
D) Path-goal clarifying.

Question 17

Which type of police leader divides officers into the in-group, out-group, and try-out group?

A) LMX
B) LPC
C) PGT
D) CWB

Question 18

According to Kerr and Jermier, those who make leadership ineffective or impossible are referred to as:

A) Leadership substitutes.
B) Leadership managers.
C) Leadership subordinates.
D) Leadership neutralizers.

Question 19

Which type of leader gives something to get something, motivating followers by appealing to their self interests?

A) Transformational leader.
B) Authoritarian leader.
C) Transactional leader.
D) Individualized leader.

Question 20

Which of the following is a trait of charismatic leaders?

A) Using new, unconventional strategies.
B) Self-sacrifice.
C) Reliance on emotional appeals.
D) All of the above.

Question 21

In describing this type of leadership, Greenleaf stated the primary orientation is that leaders should first be servants, meeting the legitimate needs of their followers.

A) Servant leadership.
B) Spiritual leadership.
C) Authentic leadership.
D) Ethical leadership.

Question 22

In describing this type of leadership, Greenleaf stated that the leader must consistently demonstrate moral values through personal actions, interpersonal communications, and the communication of values to followers.

A) Servant leadership.
B) Spiritual leadership.
C) Authentic leadership.
D) Ethical leadership.

Question 23

____________ refers to the patterns of behavior as perceived and experienced by others that they use to characterize the leader.

Question 24

Whatever the source of a leader's authority, ____________ is a separate concept.

Question 25

__________ requires that a person have a desire to play a key role in influencing the outcome of activities.

Question 26

A police leader with ____________ power needs will tend toward being authoritarian, making most decisions, and tightly controlling work.

Question 27

There are two branches to traditional leadership theory: ____________ and the traits approach.

Question 28

The ____________ is the result of efforts to find a small number of broad trait categories into which many specific traits can be fitted.

Question 29

According to Downs, the bias of ____________ is toward maintaining things as they are.

Question 30

____________ are said to stand behind their officers, whereas ____________are said to stand beside their officers.

Question 31

The essence of ____________ is that for leaders to be effective, they must engage in leader behaviors.

Question 32

The core of ____________ is that leaders develop different types of relationships with their subordinates.

Question 33

Make at least four distinctions between leaders and managers.

Question 34

Identify and define the three components of the leadership skill mix.

Question 35

Identify and define Downs' four styles of leader behavior.

Question 36

Compare transactional and transformational leaders.

Question 37

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Impulsive and erratic in their use of power

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 38

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Respectful of others' rights'

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 39

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Oriented toward justice

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 40

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Ambivalent about power

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 41

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Concerned with exceptionally high goals

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 42

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Builders of systems and people

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 43

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Inspirational leaders

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 44

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Difficult to replace

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 45

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Source of strength for others

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 46

Match the power needs from Column 1 to the type of power as listed in Column 2. Each item in Column 2 will be used multiple times.

-Rude and overbearing

A) Police leaders with personalized power
B) Police leaders with socialized power

Question 47

As a police officer in a department of 500 personnel, would you prefer your immediate supervisor to be motivated by personalized power or social power?

Question 48

As a person advances from being a sergeant to being a chief, deputy chief, or major, the skills that they need evolve and change over time. Why does this happen?

Question 49

As a police employee, would you prefer to work for a chief of police who was authoritarian, democratic, or laissez faire with regard to their own leadership styles? Justify your response.

Question 50

As a police officer, which style of sergeant would you prefer to be supervised by: station house or street sergeant? Why?

Question 51

If you were a mayor choosing a new police chief, would you want him/her to be a transactional or a transformational leader? Why?