Sample Questions - Police
10 Questions
- What movement has arisen post-9/11 relative to local law enforcement's place and role in the mission of Homeland Security?
- Information channelling
- Corroboration of police strategies
- Experimental collaboration
- Intelligence-led policing
- What is one of Chertloff's six 2006 agenda points for improving Homeland Security?
- Ensure the fluidity of borders with neighbors
- Restrict the use of extra-atmospheric electronic resources to official use only
- Establish mandatory national DNA collection upon birth or entry into the country
- Enhance information sharing with departmental partners
- How did McGregor see theory and practice?
- As antithetical
- As inseparable
- Theory as real, practice as nonsense
- Practice as real, theory as nonsense
- What term did Taylor use to describe the phenomenon of workers not wanting to produce so much as to have their quotas raised?
- Marble in bowl
- Systematic soldiering
- Paradoxical reinforcement
- Following sea anchor
- Fayol recognized one disastrous potential consequence of his espoused scalar principle of organization. What?
- It gave away a ruinous amount of control
- It was unsuitable for a hierarchical organization
- It created internal contentious factions
- It would hamper swift action
- What is it called when people's need to influence others' behavior is for the common good of the police department, as opposed to being for their own aggrandizement?
- Socialized power motivation
- Communism (academic meaning)
- Administrative philanthropy
- Goal-oriented modularization
- Per the study of 2,200 police officers nationally, what percent were found to have serious drug problems?
- 0.8%
- 2.3%
- 10%
- 17%
- What is one of the top five of the sixty ranked stressors of police as reported by Violanti and Aron in 1995?
- High-speed chase
- Felony in progress
- Making arrests alone
- Boredom
- What is the term for that kind of change which is, "A carefully planned formal action designed to bring about a new condition ..."?
- Directed change
- Polemic change
- Machiavellian change
- Forest change
- When attempting organizational change, about what percent of the time does such effort fail?
- 5% - 9%
- 20% - 35%
- 50% - 80%
- 90%+