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Test Bank Supervision Police Personnel 8th Edition Iannone Iannone Bernstein
Test Bank Supervision Police Personnel 8th Edition Iannone Iannone Bernstein
Test Bank Supervision Police Personnel 8th Edition Iannone Iannone Bernstein
Activities
Introduction: 1. Explain how the supervisor can do his job better with an understanding
of the principles of organization, administration, and management
2. Discuss why planning is the first administrative function
Activity 3: Delegation
Introduction: 1. Criticality of Delegation
a. Have students give examples of reasons for Delegation
(1) How is Delegation a form of training
b. Have students give examples of Failures of Delegation
c. Discuss the correct process
Application: 1. Display organizational charts from early part of lesson. Have students
discuss correct spans at each level, and reasons for the span they selected.
Have students give examples of the tasks that may be delegated at each
level and assignment
2. Discuss Applied Knowledge Questions as time permits
Test: Have students answer questions at the end of the chapter, time permitting
Assignments
Assignment #1: Organization Structure and Administrative Functions
1. Prepare an organizational chart for any one of the following:
a. A professional football team
b. An auto manufacturing plant
c. A donut franchise
d. A company Christmas party committee
e. Any other organization assigned by the instructor
2. Display the following:
a. The level of execution
b. Lines of authority
c. Staff functions
2. Assume you are the Lieutenant in charge of the Auto Theft Squad. Which of these tasks
would you delegate, and why?
a. The interrogation of a suspect
b. Investigation of a citizen complaint against the Squad Sergeant
c. Coordination of a surveillance operation
d. Preparation of a statistical report on auto thefts for the past year
3. Assume you are the Captain in charge of the Communications Division. Which of these
tasks would you delegate, and why?
a. Preparation of the biennial budget request
b. Research into a new radio system
c. Supervision of the Dispatch Center
d. Re-writing the Procedures for Equipment Requisition
2. “We believe that the reason this agency exists is to serve the people of the Township, to
uphold the Constitution, and to prevent and investigate crime.” What kind of plan is this? Who
typically creates it? Write a plan stating the Police Department’s position on investigating citizen
complaints against its personnel.
3. Locate a Police Department’s plan on the correct way to investigate incidents of Domestic
Violence. Be prepared to answer: What kind of plan is it? Who wrote it? Why is it not more
specific than it is? Why is it not less specific than it is?
CHAPTER 3: LEADERSHIP, SUPERVISION, AND COMMAND
PRESENCE
Activities
Test: Have students answer questions at the end of the chapter, time permitting
Assignments
Assignment #1: Leadership Styles. Individual Assignment
For each of the following people, choose the term you think best describes their leadership style:
Autocratic, Democratic, Free-Rein. Justify your choice.