Midlevel Managment

Front 1

What is the basic element of communication?

Back 1

DYAD: two individuals transmitting symbols back and forth or more simply, two people communications.

Front 2

What type of networks may not have much to do with the goals of the organization?

Back 2

Kinship Networks

Front 3

Who found through surveying criminal justice and journalism students that a great deal of suspicion and distrust exists between the two groups even before they enter the field?

Back 3

Selke and Bartoszek

Front 4

What is absolute information?

Back 4

An idea or piece of knowledge expressed in recognized symbolic terms.

Front 5

Who recommended that police bureaucracies move away from the traditional chain of command to the so called Z theory approach which encourages teamwork rather than adversarial competitive relationships among agencies staff?

Back 5

Archambeault and Wierman

Front 6

Power in an organization depends on how subunits deal with what factor?

Back 6

Uncertainty and on whether they meet the criteria of substantiality and centrality.

Front 7

What kind of power is most closely aligned to Webbers concept of authority?

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Legitimate power

Front 8

What kind of authority is exemplified by the statement: " the old man wants it that way"?

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Traditional authority

Front 9

What are the types of authority as delineated by Weber?

Back 9

Traditional, charismatic, and legal

Front 10

Who is the power recipient?

Back 10

The receiver of the power

Front 11

Which court case, one of the most important cases in history of prisoner litigation, illustrates the importance of the question of effectiveness for whom?

Back 11

Ruiz v. Estelle

Front 12

What part of effectiveness continues to be largely a process of identifying goals, measuring them and comparing the results against some sort of standard?

Back 12

The goal model

Front 13

Variable analysis not only provides information about what may contribute to effectiveness, but how effectiveness may be affected in that way?

Back 13

Enhanced

Front 14

What is a systems review?

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Incorporates concerns for changes in an organization's environment

Front 15

Which model does not view goal accomplishment as a relevant consideration?

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the system resource model

Front 16

Which model does not view goal accomplishment as a relevant consideration?

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the system resource model

Front 17

Which model does not view goal accomplishment as a relevant consideration?

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the system resource model

Front 18

Which model does not view goal accomplishment as a relevant consideration?

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the system resource model

Front 19

Organizational change can be understood as a bridge between and an organization and _______?

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Environment

Front 20

Generating and selecting appropriate __________ solutions to problems is another crucial step in planning.

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Alternative

Front 21

Agency decision makers have favorite solutions stored away that are searching for ______.

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Problems

Front 22

Organizational development focuses on and organizations ________________.

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Environmental influences

Front 23

Organizational development focuses on and organizations ________________.

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Environmental influences

Front 24

What found that law enforcement agencies kept crucial information to themselves and had informal policies not to share information with other agencies?

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The 911 Commission report

Front 25

Kurt Lewin's ___________ model was driven by the dictum "research that produces nothing but books will not saffice."

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action resource

Front 26

Practitioners that must be convinces that research findings are __________ the problems they face.

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relevant to

Front 27

What may researches' undergraduate and graduate training lean them to expect?

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Quality research will drive rational policy choices, research will have an authoritative role. They may expect their work to direct, rather than simply influence, decision making.

Front 28

How is increased interest in research-guided policy in criminal justice exemplified?

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-Growing use of data in field
- Growing among academics in interest in outcome research in CJ development methods used for efficacy.
-Federal and some state report.

Front 29

How can in-house research units establish credibility and gain support of organizational managers?

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-They can integrate researchers into the fabric or organizations
-Potential for close partnership within managers.

Front 30

What dies the Texas Local Government Code (section 362) allow neighboring municipalities to do?

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Allows mutual assistance operations

Front 31

What allocates equipment and personnel from neighboring law enforcement agencies to command structure that s separate, but under control of neighboring agencies?

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Task Force

Front 32

What provides temporary help from agencies to participating agencies on an as needed basis?

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Direct assistance operation

Front 33

Where are the details of a mutual assistance pact such as compensation and chain of command defined?

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A contract

Front 34

What caused the development of mutual aid pacts?

Back 34

growth of suburbs

Front 35

Organizational coordination should be both ________ and ______.

Back 35

Internal
External

Front 36

What are necessary characteristics of a good report?

Back 36

Answer interrogatives (who, what, when, where, and why?) usable, readable, easily obtainable, storable, retrievable, well written (punctuation, grammar, spelling)

Front 37

Substantive completeness in report writing is often encouraged by the use of what as reminders?

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ASCOT: Arrested, Source, Circumstances, Observations,Taken

Front 38

How can criminal justice reports be basically divided?

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Line and Staff

Front 39

How are criminal justice reports officially used?

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They are used in court, policy changes, sharing between agencies, resource allocation, and budgeting requests

Front 40

In what section os a research report are the population or universe, sample section, and techniques for data collection and data analysis described?

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Methodology section

Front 41

It is the responsibility of an organization's management to ensure that what procedures are followed in the reporting function?

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-Ensure reports are specific and relevant and germane to the organizations mission.
-To ensure accuracy (substantively correct as well as written)
-To timeliness
-Report has to be distributed properly.

Front 42

Questions addressing who, what, where, and when are known as basic _________.

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Interrogatives

Front 43

The current state of any research topic is generally prepared through a literature review and is generally included in what section of the research report?

Back 43

Introduction

Front 44

What should be included in the conclusion section of the research report?

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Discussion of the results: respond to what the results mean, describe what was learned, describe what influences can be drawn, describe what courses of action are warranted, report the short comings of the study, and make any recommendations for further study.

Front 45

Items that are too large to be included in the text of a research report are generally included in what section of the research report?

Back 45

appendix

Front 46

How are references generally listed in a research report?

Back 46

alphabetical order by author

Front 47

A summary of the research report should identify the research problem, procedures for collection and analyzing data, major findings and major conclusions. This summary, which is written last but placed in the front of the report, should be written in 150 words or less is known as what?

Back 47

Abstract

Front 48

What is a statement of the financial position of an organization, unit or individual for a definite period of time based on estimates of expenditures during the period and proposals for financing them if known as what?

Back 48

Budget

Front 49

Differentiate among the various types of budget formats?

Back 49

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Front 50

A budget year is known as what kind of period?

Back 50

Fiscal

Front 51

How are governmental purchases normally made?

Back 51

Lowest sealed bid

Front 52

What are the valid alternatives to the normal purchase process of a local police department?

Back 52

Collectivising, grants, testing test samples, military service, forfeiture funds and items, gifts

Front 53

What are the conditions or criteria of purchase to be made by public agency known as?

Back 53

specification

Front 54

Differentiate among the various types of income generation.

Back 54

Labor: Wages
Land: rent
Capital: interest
Entrepreneur: Profit