Understanding Police Leadership

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

Answer explanation

Robert House (1971) developed this theory of leadership, a version of contingency theory, which posits that an effective leader removes obstacles for his staff to achieve their goals. The theory based on the adoption of a leadership style or behavior that is best suited to the needs and environment of the workers in order to achieve established goals (House, Mitchell, 1974). The goal is to increase employee motivation, empowerment, and satisfaction so they become more productive members of the organization. Thus, this is contingent on a number of factors and is, therefore, context specific.

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

Answer explanation

The assigned typology is based upon a leaders rank or role that they exercise within the organization. examples include Lieutenant colonel, or CEO. Emergent leaders are context specific and can appear unexpectedly. An aexample is someone who organizes people following a major disaster event.

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.

Answer explanation

The discretionary gap represents the difference between what employees must do - compliance contrasted against what they wish to do as a result of effective leadership and commitment.

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.