What was the management system developed in Japan in an effort to help revitalize Japanese industries?

ECIV 210

Dynamics

University of South Carolina Columbia

What is the process of arranging personnel and physical resources to carry out plans and accomplish goals and objectives?

a. Supervision

b.Management

c. Planning

d. Organizing

They conduct overall goal formulation and make policy decisions regarding allocation of resources.

a. Top managers

b. Middle managers

c. Lower managers

d. Rank-and-file

This will allow managers to understand that any changes made in their unit will have a corresponding impact on other units.

a. Socialization

b. System theory

c. Bureaucracy

d. Chain of management

This is based on open-system theory and recognizes that there are many internal and external factors that influence organizational behavior.

a. TQM
b. Quality-of-life policing
c. Contingency theory
d. Organizational design

This is characterized by few hierarchical levels with wide spans of control, allowing for greater employee autonomy and less control of operations.

a. Tall structure
b. Police paramilitary
c. Planning
d. None of above

Directing individuals to achieve organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner is known as what?

a. Supervision
b. Management
c. Chain of command
d. None of above

What is the of the strategy in which officers aggressively target minor crime in order to send a signal that such behavior will not be tolerated?

a. Centralization
b. Zero-tolerance policing
c. Policing legitimacy
d. Compstat

b. Zero-tolerance policing

What is defined as the public's confidence in the police as fair and equitable?

a. Decentralization
b. Tall structure
c. Police legitimacy
d. None of above

What are the three major influences that affect the development of police goals?

a. Community, individual, organizational
b. Departmental, social, organizational
c. Decentralization, centralization, decision making
d. Socialization, community, hierarchy

a. Community, individual, organizational

Which management system was developed in Japan in an effort to help revitalize Japanese industries?

a. Corporate design
b. Aggressive planning
c. Quality of life supervision
d. Total quality management

d. Total quality management

This is the process of identify applicants who are unqualified and removing them from furthr consideration, while leaving all tose who are minimally qualified still in the application pool.

a. Training

b. Recruitment

c. Screening out

d. Screening in

A selection method can be considered to have a leaglly disparate when the selection reate of a group is lwss than 80 percent of the most succesful group. This known as:

a. The four-fifths rul

b. Validity

c. BFOQ

d. Pedagogy

What is the term for the degree to which a measure actually assesses the attribute it is designed to measure?

a. Reliability

b. Job analysis

c. BFOQ

d. Validity

This is the process of providing a general body of knowledge on which decisons can be based as to why something is being done while performing the job.

a. Training

b. Pedagogy

c. Job analysis

d. Education

This court case ruledd that an wmployer's requirement of a high school education and two standardized written tests for a position disqualified a higher percentage of blacks than whites.

a. Terry v. Ohio

b. Davis v. City of Dallas

c. Griggs v. Duke Power Company

d. None of the above

c. Griggs v. Duke Poweer Company

What is the purpose of in-service trainging?

a. To socialize the new officer

b. To provide regular updating of all members of the department

c. To provide guidance for the career path

d. None of the above

b. To provide regular updating of all members of the department

What is an assessment center?

a. It is process that attempts to measure a candidate's ptential for a particular managerial position

b. It evaluates recruits for possible hiring

c. It reviews police behavior in use of force situations

d. It is an interview panel consisting of police and citizens

a. It is process that attempts to measure a candidate's potentail for a particular managerial position

This is the process of instructing that individual how to do the job by providing relevant information about the job.

a. Training

b. Philosophy

c. Orienttation

d. Education

This court case upheld the standard rquirement theat police applicants not have or excessive histories of marijuana use.

a. Shield Club v. City of Cleveland

b. Davis v. City of Dallas

c. Dwyer v. City of Miami

d. Clark v. City of San Jose

b. Davis v. City of Dallas

This case ruled that selection and promotion test must be shown to be related to job performance.

a. Davis v. City of Dallas

b. Shield Club v. City of Cleveland

c. Griggs v. Duke Power Company

d. Albemarie Paper Comany v. Moody

d. Albemarie Paper Company v. Moody

What is the process of preparing for the future by setting goals and objectives and developing courses of action for accomplishing them?

Strategic planning is a process in which an organization's leaders define their vision for the future and identify their organization's goals and objectives. The process includes establishing the sequence in which those goals should be realized so that the organization can reach its stated vision.

Is based on open systems theory and recognizes that there are many internal and external factors that influence organizational behavior?

This is based on open-systems theory and recognizes that there are many internal and external factors that influence organizational behavior: contingency theory.

What is the process of motivating others to perform various tasks that will contribute to the accomplishment of goals and objectives?

Leading is the process of preparing for the future by setting goals and objectives and developing courses of action for accomplishing them.

What is defined as the public's confidence in the police as fair and equitable?

What is defined as the public's confidence in the police as fair and equitable? Police legitimacy.