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WorksheetsUnderstanding Police Leadership
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What are the two types of Organizational Power?
Weak and Strong
Public and Private
Vertical and Horizontal
Formal and Informal
Path Goal theory of leadership focuses on the adoption of specific styles of leadership in order to remove what?
Temptation
Obstacles
Reluctance
Idealism
What type of leadership capabilities are reflected by: The ability to enable transformation, vision, inspiring, persuading, deciding, and resolving?
Creative Capabilities
Relational Capabilities
Conceptual Capabilities
Positive Capabilities
What type of leadership capabilities are reflected by: The ability to think outside the box, experimenting, interacting, harmonizing, imagining, and questioning?
Creative Capabilities
Positive Capabilities
Relational Capabilities
Conceptual Capabilities
There are the two types of leader typologies: Assigned and emergent. What qualities are these based on?
Hard work and innovation
Promotion based and time in the position
Rank or role related and context specific
Friends in high places, or nepotism and meritocracy
Which of the following represents an example of informal power within an organization?
Rooted in organizational structure or hierarchy
Creating order out of chaos
Assigned responsibilities
Built on experience or expertise
Which of the following is an example of a manager's quality, rather than that of a leader?
The desire to maintain the Status quo
Being an agent of change and innovation
The ability to build meaningful relationships with staff
Taking strategically calculated risks
Which of the following characteristics are NOT common to both Leaders and Managers?
Effective communications
Social Skills
Maintaining a future vision
The ability to develop people
What does the Discretionary Effort Model of leadership represent?
The difference between positive results and negative consequences.
The difference which creates a gap between upper management and staff
The difference between concept development and service delivery
The difference between what staff have to do, and what they want to do.
Emotional Intelligence has taken a central and important role in organizational management. Arguably, the most important of the 5 characteristics of EI is Empathy. Which of the following best defines empathy?
The ability to regulate or CONTROL your own internal emotions and feelings until the right time or place to express them.
The ability to INTERACT with others positively and build relationships.
The ability to understand how OTHERS feel and how their feelings may affect their actions and behavior.
Highly emotionally intelligent people are not driven by rewards. They have a goal or are objective oriented.
How are leaders seen according to Path-Goal Theory?
As highly independent
As problem solvers
As rule followers
As rule makers
Which of the following is a core element of Vroom's Expectancy Theory?
Planning
Effort
Stability
Motivation
Performance potential is mainly dependent upon which of the following factors?
Assuring Organizational and Individual needs
The exercise of rank and authority
Ensuring that ever member is trained in emotional intelligence
Making certain the the leader is able to make decisions rapidly
Mentoring, as a form of relationship, focuses on what?
Well-being of the staff
Providing direction
Support to staff members
Performance and productivity
Which of the following incentives drive performance within the organization?
Fair compensation & rewards
Employing threats of dismissal
Promoting only staff who have good connections
challenging the staff by overloading them with tasks
Which of the following are an example of individual attributes of performance
Equipment, instruments, consumable supplies, etc.
Clear organizational goals, strategic plans, and structures
Religious, ethical, and moral values
Information technology and communication systems, equipment, and connectivity
Which of the following best represent organizational factors of performance?
Individual Knowledge, skills, and abilities
Tools and the physical environment
Individual attributes
The external environment
In what form of leadership does the leader NOT consult with others?
Joint
Delegative
Autocratic
Consultive
What is the formula for the Performance Equation?
Performance = Competency x Resources
Performance = Resources x Opportunity
Performance = Capacity x Commitment
Performance = Competency x Opportunity
Which of the following terms Does NOT characterize a criterion of trait theory?
Stability
Motivation
Individual differences
Consistency
