Sgt Exam Flashcards
(37 cards)
The true leader knows that he cannot afford such a _____ lazy approach to supervision.
Morally
The responsibility to discipline fairly and wisely will sometimes be an _____ burden for the leader to bear.
Uncomfortable
As an _____, the supervisor will be impartial, thorough, and accurate.
Evaluator
The _____ of a good supervisor should cause the potential candidate no problem.
Ethics
_____ is a process in which the line supervisor must demonstrate participate and support.
Discipline
Skills such as ____ and active listening cab be taught where there is sincere desire to learn.
Counseling
_____ role is vital if the police team is to achieve its goal and objectives in that cause.
Leadership
Ethics have been termed “_____” and have been referred to as a set of moral principles
Rules and proper conduct
The ethical police supervisor must develop a reputation for _____ with his superiors.
Reliability
Loyalty to management, then, means loyalty to the _____ management team
Entire
Means doing the right thing for the right reason even when no one is watching
Integrity
Is a quality that the supervisor cannot afford to be without.
Reliability
The police sergeant above all people should know all too well the dangers of effects of leaving the recipient of verbal abuse with no opportunity for a _____ retreat.
Face - saving
Supervisors serve as a _____ listener and an intelligent confident when personal difficulties begin to affect and officers job performance
Sympathetic
One way in which the supervisor aids his employees and his employer is through his efforts in education and _____ training of the work force
In service
Good instructors put together a _____ before they commence their teaching efforts in front of a class
Lesson plan
Discipline entails much more than _____
Punishment
Anger, denial, and perhaps even personal insult and abuse aimed at the supervisor may be the result of the initial confrontation with a victim of
Alcoholism
_____ Action should be delayed until the supervisor can be alone with the employee and a setting offering adequate quite in privacy for discussion
Corrective
I identical or similar infractions or an identical or similar penalties.
Comparative discipline
Failure to make _____ changes does, however, indicate a lack of good judgment
Needed
Making the intelligent police supervisor recognizes the importance of all verities of communication and sees the value of the ______ ______ as used in its proper place
Written word
For real communication to take place, are of the participants in the information exchange must be _____ and _____ with one another
Attentive
Open
The _____ creature called a supervisor is quite certainly a part of management in addition to other memberships he maintains in the police organization
Hybrid
