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POLICE ADMINISTRATION- STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND
BEHAVIORS EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
VERIFIED!!!! ALREADY GRADED A+


Events that lead to the London Metropolitan Police - (answer)Improved agricultural provided surplus to
cities, people wete drawn to coties due to industrial revolution because of job opportunity, popultion
increase lead to crime increase



1890-Frontier Closed - (answer)Swift transition from rural agrarian society to urbanized society.



Define - politics - (answer)Process of acquiring and Maintaining control over a government; including
policies, administration and operations



Why can politics not be kept out of police agencies? - (answer)1-police departments must be subject to
democratic control



2-public policy is where politics in the administration intersect



Highly Partisan - (answer)The worst type of politics, must be kept out of policing



Machine Politics 19th Century - (answer)A tightly controlled political party, headed by a "boss" or small,
aristocratic group, whose purpose was to repeatedly win, elections for political gain



Patronage/Spoils System - (answer)When non qualified people are rewarded



4 types of organizations - (answer)Mutual benefit association: beneficiary is the members.



Business concerns: the owner is the prime beneficiary.



Service organizations: a specific client group is a prime beneficiary.



Commonwealth organizations: beneficiaries are the public at large

,POLICE ADMINISTRATION- STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND
BEHAVIORS EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
VERIFIED!!!! ALREADY GRADED A+




Three Systems of Traditional Organization - (answer)1- scientific management

2- The bureaucratic model

3- administrative/management theory



Scientific Management Theory - (answer)It is to find the " 1 Best Way" to do work.



Functional Supervision - (answer)People who are responsible for directing certain tasks, despite the fact
that this meant the authority of the supervisor might cut across organizational lines



Exception principal in relation to functional supervision - (answer)Routine matter should be handled by
lower level, managers or supervisors. Higher level manager should only receive reports of deviations
above/below standard performances.



Characteristics of Webers, bureaucratic model - (answer)1- The organization of offices follows the
principle of hierarchy: chain of command is created

2- there is a rite of appeal and of statement of grievances from lower to higher offices.

3- A division of labor exists: specific areas of competence.

4-official duties are bound by a system of rational rules: standard operating procedures

5- administrative acts, decisions and rules are recorded in writing: creating an institutional memory.

6: The authority associated with the position is the property of the office, and not the occupant of the
position.

7- employees are appointed on the basis of qualifications and specialized training is necessary.

8- Organizational members do not on it.



2 modes of Street level bureaucrats. - (answer)State agents: who believe in following the law and
policies.

Citizen agents: who will bend or ignore them

, POLICE ADMINISTRATION- STRUCTURE, PROCESS AND
BEHAVIORS EXAM WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
VERIFIED!!!! ALREADY GRADED A+


Administrative theory - (answer)Luther, Gulich and Lyndal Urwick Edited papers on the science of
administration: Identify generic and universal methods of administration.



Human relations school - (answer)This theory emphasized the human element



Organizational humanism - (answer)1- The work in itself should be satisfying and help to motivate
workers.

2- organizations must pay attention to the on and off the job needs of workers

3- Work should not be some thing that people endure to make a living



Maslow's needs hierarchy - (answer)1- physiological

2- safety

3- belongingness

4- self-esteem

5- Self- actualization



McGregors theory X and theory Y - (answer)Theory X characterizations, underpin, traditional
organizational theory, while theory Y is more positive



Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory - (answer)Hygiene factors relate to the work environment in
motivators to the work itself.



Force Field Analysis - (answer)A technique for determining which forces drive a proposed change and
which forces restrain it.



Entropic Process - (answer)The prospect of moving toward decline, disorganization



Buffering - Entropic Process - (answer)The process of storing or to resist decline

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