Fire Officer 3, Alabama Fire College
Contingency Theory - ✔️✔️Based on the belief that there is no one best management
or leadership style
Semistructured - ✔️✔️Interview tactic that begins with a list of questions but allows the
interviewer the flexibility of asking unplanned questions.
System Model approach - ✔️✔️Input of services is balanced against the desired
results, this service input consists of staffing, training, locating and equipping the first
response units.
Forecasting and Trending - ✔️✔️Projections of what may occur in the furture.
environmental scanning - ✔️✔️careful monitoring of your organizations internal and
external environments.
technology awareness - ✔️✔️Computer technology that can help us develop budgets,
predict the best locations for fire stations.
Innovation - ✔️✔️allows you to find new methods to respond to unexpected challenges
or work within new constraints.
Total Quality Management - ✔️✔️primary focus is to prevent problems rather than
correct them later.
Systems theory - ✔️✔️views organizations as systems with independent parts
Organizational Theory - ✔️✔️Recognizing that human resources are the most
important out of the organization
Quantitative Management - ✔️✔️uses mathematical equations to solve complex
problems and make decisions
Leadership - ✔️✔️The act of controlling, directing, conducting, guiding, and
administering through the use of personal behavioral traits or characteristics.
Ethical conduct - ✔️✔️The level of conduct all members of society are expected to
follow.
Planning - ✔️✔️essental to human resources management for projecting needs and
anticipating challanges.
, NFPA 1710 - ✔️✔️NFPA that identifies the optimum or ideal staffing levels as four
members for each ladder/truck engine compinies.
Laws Affecting employment - ✔️✔️Federal laws effecting hiring practices in the U.S.
NFPA 1582 - ✔️✔️NFPA for fitness for duty considerations
Structured - ✔️✔️interview were team members may take turns asking questions
based on predetermined sequence or series of toptics.
Unstructured - ✔️✔️Interview tactic that lacks preplanning or prepared questions.
NFPA 1582 - ✔️✔️NFPA for Comprehensive Occupational Medical program for fire
department.
Benefit needs analysis - ✔️✔️A package that should be routinely reviewed to ensure
that the benefits provided are cost effective and are of actual use to the employee.
Comprehensive-Risk Approach - ✔️✔️This approach compares risk management plan
developed in the jurisdiction with the services either already in place or that need to be
added to mitigate those risks.
PIO - ✔️✔️Person responsible for providing information about the department and its
operations to the media and the public.
Zero-based budgeting - ✔️✔️This Budget requires all expenditures to be justified at the
beginning of each new budget cycle.
Matrix Budgeting - ✔️✔️This budgeting system is used to fund programs or projects
that involve a variety of departments, divisions, branches, or sections.
Program Budgeting - ✔️✔️This budgeting is often a form of line-item budgets that uses
categories that are different from the classic line item budget.
Performance Budgeting - ✔️✔️This Budget is categorized by function or activity ( also
called outcome-based budgets)
Capital Budget - ✔️✔️Type of budget that projects major purchases that cost more
than a certain specified amount of money and are expected to last more than 3 years. (
Fire apparatus, vehicles and equipment)
Contingency Theory - ✔️✔️Based on the belief that there is no one best management
or leadership style
Semistructured - ✔️✔️Interview tactic that begins with a list of questions but allows the
interviewer the flexibility of asking unplanned questions.
System Model approach - ✔️✔️Input of services is balanced against the desired
results, this service input consists of staffing, training, locating and equipping the first
response units.
Forecasting and Trending - ✔️✔️Projections of what may occur in the furture.
environmental scanning - ✔️✔️careful monitoring of your organizations internal and
external environments.
technology awareness - ✔️✔️Computer technology that can help us develop budgets,
predict the best locations for fire stations.
Innovation - ✔️✔️allows you to find new methods to respond to unexpected challenges
or work within new constraints.
Total Quality Management - ✔️✔️primary focus is to prevent problems rather than
correct them later.
Systems theory - ✔️✔️views organizations as systems with independent parts
Organizational Theory - ✔️✔️Recognizing that human resources are the most
important out of the organization
Quantitative Management - ✔️✔️uses mathematical equations to solve complex
problems and make decisions
Leadership - ✔️✔️The act of controlling, directing, conducting, guiding, and
administering through the use of personal behavioral traits or characteristics.
Ethical conduct - ✔️✔️The level of conduct all members of society are expected to
follow.
Planning - ✔️✔️essental to human resources management for projecting needs and
anticipating challanges.
, NFPA 1710 - ✔️✔️NFPA that identifies the optimum or ideal staffing levels as four
members for each ladder/truck engine compinies.
Laws Affecting employment - ✔️✔️Federal laws effecting hiring practices in the U.S.
NFPA 1582 - ✔️✔️NFPA for fitness for duty considerations
Structured - ✔️✔️interview were team members may take turns asking questions
based on predetermined sequence or series of toptics.
Unstructured - ✔️✔️Interview tactic that lacks preplanning or prepared questions.
NFPA 1582 - ✔️✔️NFPA for Comprehensive Occupational Medical program for fire
department.
Benefit needs analysis - ✔️✔️A package that should be routinely reviewed to ensure
that the benefits provided are cost effective and are of actual use to the employee.
Comprehensive-Risk Approach - ✔️✔️This approach compares risk management plan
developed in the jurisdiction with the services either already in place or that need to be
added to mitigate those risks.
PIO - ✔️✔️Person responsible for providing information about the department and its
operations to the media and the public.
Zero-based budgeting - ✔️✔️This Budget requires all expenditures to be justified at the
beginning of each new budget cycle.
Matrix Budgeting - ✔️✔️This budgeting system is used to fund programs or projects
that involve a variety of departments, divisions, branches, or sections.
Program Budgeting - ✔️✔️This budgeting is often a form of line-item budgets that uses
categories that are different from the classic line item budget.
Performance Budgeting - ✔️✔️This Budget is categorized by function or activity ( also
called outcome-based budgets)
Capital Budget - ✔️✔️Type of budget that projects major purchases that cost more
than a certain specified amount of money and are expected to last more than 3 years. (
Fire apparatus, vehicles and equipment)
