POLICE SERGEANT COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔During an employee-centered interview, the wise interviewer should adopt what
approach? - ✔✔"Big ears, little mouth."
✔✔A supervisor is seeking to establish strict liability for employee compliance with a
new order. What is the best method for the supervisor to communicate the order to his
or her subordinates? - ✔✔Written communication.
✔✔Which one of the following workers would be most likely to accuse a supervisor of
partiality in rating the employee on a service rating? - ✔✔The marginal worker.
✔✔Upon observing a breach of discipline, a supervisor should usually call the matter to
the attention of the employee promptly and privately. In which of the following situations
may chastisement in the presence of fellow employees or the public be justified? -
✔✔When it is necessary to stop a continuing breach of order.
✔✔The essence of participatory management is - ✔✔involving employees in decision
making.
✔✔In which of the following four steps of the five step teaching method may a teacher
have the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of his or her teaching and the
learner's comprehension of the subject matter? - ✔✔The test.
✔✔When a supervisor investigates complaints against personnel, the ultimate purpose
of the investigation is - ✔✔to arrive at the truth.
✔✔There are occasions where the supervisor must conduct s separation interview.
Which of the following is most accurate concerning this important interview? - ✔✔It is
usually desirable to prepare notes as the interview progresses.
, ✔✔In most police agencies, the single most important training activity is - ✔✔teaching
new employees to perform their basic duties.
✔✔When a supervisor must take disciplinary action against a subordinate, there should
be no hesitation. Failure to act decisively may result in the supervisor - ✔✔abdicating
his or her position of leadership.
✔✔Which type of communication is most effective in coordinating the efforts of an
organizational unit? - ✔✔Lateral.
✔✔Of the following, what is considered to be the prime duty of a police sergeant? -
✔✔Supervising his or her subordinates.
✔✔Authored the most important works of American criminology published in this
century; Causes of Delinquency (1969) presents the author's social control theory. -
✔✔Travis Hirshi.
✔✔People react to failure in multiple ways. Of the following, which choice should
supervisors recognize as the most common reaction to failure? - ✔✔Rationalization.
✔✔This theory of criminology maintains that delinquent behavior is learned through he
same psychological process as any other behavior. - ✔✔Social Learning Theory.
✔✔As the sergeant in charge of a unit, you have discovered that one of your officers
has been intentionally withholding information from you in an effort to show you that he
is displeased with your leadership. According to management experts, this officer is
practicing - ✔✔upward discipline.
✔✔Under which of the following leadership styles would moral, discipline, efficiency and
production all begin to deteriorate? - ✔✔The Laissez-faire leader.
✔✔Many types of questions can be used with effective results while the supervisor is
instructing subordinates during a training session. However, experts agree that the most
commonly used questions in teaching situations are - ✔✔overhead questions.
✔✔Which one of the following actions by a supervisor would be most effective in
generating control of the unit? - ✔✔Observation and inspection.
✔✔The slang term used to denote a mixture of heroin and cocaine injected into the
bloodstream by the user is - ✔✔speedball.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔During an employee-centered interview, the wise interviewer should adopt what
approach? - ✔✔"Big ears, little mouth."
✔✔A supervisor is seeking to establish strict liability for employee compliance with a
new order. What is the best method for the supervisor to communicate the order to his
or her subordinates? - ✔✔Written communication.
✔✔Which one of the following workers would be most likely to accuse a supervisor of
partiality in rating the employee on a service rating? - ✔✔The marginal worker.
✔✔Upon observing a breach of discipline, a supervisor should usually call the matter to
the attention of the employee promptly and privately. In which of the following situations
may chastisement in the presence of fellow employees or the public be justified? -
✔✔When it is necessary to stop a continuing breach of order.
✔✔The essence of participatory management is - ✔✔involving employees in decision
making.
✔✔In which of the following four steps of the five step teaching method may a teacher
have the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of his or her teaching and the
learner's comprehension of the subject matter? - ✔✔The test.
✔✔When a supervisor investigates complaints against personnel, the ultimate purpose
of the investigation is - ✔✔to arrive at the truth.
✔✔There are occasions where the supervisor must conduct s separation interview.
Which of the following is most accurate concerning this important interview? - ✔✔It is
usually desirable to prepare notes as the interview progresses.
, ✔✔In most police agencies, the single most important training activity is - ✔✔teaching
new employees to perform their basic duties.
✔✔When a supervisor must take disciplinary action against a subordinate, there should
be no hesitation. Failure to act decisively may result in the supervisor - ✔✔abdicating
his or her position of leadership.
✔✔Which type of communication is most effective in coordinating the efforts of an
organizational unit? - ✔✔Lateral.
✔✔Of the following, what is considered to be the prime duty of a police sergeant? -
✔✔Supervising his or her subordinates.
✔✔Authored the most important works of American criminology published in this
century; Causes of Delinquency (1969) presents the author's social control theory. -
✔✔Travis Hirshi.
✔✔People react to failure in multiple ways. Of the following, which choice should
supervisors recognize as the most common reaction to failure? - ✔✔Rationalization.
✔✔This theory of criminology maintains that delinquent behavior is learned through he
same psychological process as any other behavior. - ✔✔Social Learning Theory.
✔✔As the sergeant in charge of a unit, you have discovered that one of your officers
has been intentionally withholding information from you in an effort to show you that he
is displeased with your leadership. According to management experts, this officer is
practicing - ✔✔upward discipline.
✔✔Under which of the following leadership styles would moral, discipline, efficiency and
production all begin to deteriorate? - ✔✔The Laissez-faire leader.
✔✔Many types of questions can be used with effective results while the supervisor is
instructing subordinates during a training session. However, experts agree that the most
commonly used questions in teaching situations are - ✔✔overhead questions.
✔✔Which one of the following actions by a supervisor would be most effective in
generating control of the unit? - ✔✔Observation and inspection.
✔✔The slang term used to denote a mixture of heroin and cocaine injected into the
bloodstream by the user is - ✔✔speedball.
