Test Questions for Criminal Justice Organizations:
Chapter 7
1. Criminal justice agencies invest an immense amount of money in leadership development
2. There is little empirical evidence on what effective leadership actually involves. True or
3. __________ is a process that effectively accomplishes organizational goals. (Answer:
4. Leadership is a group effort, in order to accomplish organizational goals; leaders must
5. There are _____ techniques that are put into practice in the criminal justice workplace.
A. 8
B. 7
C. 15
D. 11
A. Legitimate Request
B. Rational Persuasion
C. Rational Faith
D. Personal Goal
7. This leadership technique states that a person’s attitudes and behavior are indirectly
influenced by an agent’s manipulation of relevant aspects of the physical and social
situation.
A. Personal Identification
B. Decision Identification
C. Rational Persuasion
D. Situational Engineering
8. Techniques of leadership are also considered to be different styles of leadership. True or
9. Criminal justice administrators must operate their organizations in tune with the political
realities of the external environment while simultaneously maintaining their own roles
10. The most important concern of criminal justice agencies is on ________ and _______
issues.
A. Political, Public
B. Crime, Offenders
C. Crime Analysis, Economy
D. None of the above
11. ____________ intelligence suggests that leaders are most effective when they understand
people in organizations and have a passion about doing what is right in an organization,
such that people perform for them.
A. Legal
B. Emotional
C. Political
D. None of the above
12. Research in criminal justice leadership is predominately focused on the behavior of
A. Inspirational
B. Emotional
C. Behavioral
D. Informational
13. Initiating structures is the behavioral approach taken by leaders to influence subordinates
14. Behavioral approach takes into personal goals while effectively accomplishing
15. In the leadership process it was said that there two dimensions of supervisory behavior:
16. ____________ theories focus on the situation or context to understand leadership in
17. ________ contingency model explains that there are three dimensions to leadership in
A. Fielder’s
B. Woodman’s
C. Yukl’s
D. None of the above
18. Fiedler’s test of position power is the ability to _________ and _________ subordinates.
19. A leader has high ____________ control when he or she has good leader-member
20. According to Fiedler (1967), it is easier to change specific issues within the criminal
21. Path-Goal Theory suggests that the interaction between leader behavior and the
22. Based on path-goal theory there are four styles of leadership, all styles are truly identified
A. Detective Leadership
B. Supportive Leadership
C. Participative Leadership
D. Achievement-Oriented Leadership
23. This style of leadership suggests that if leader sets high expectations then their
24. ________ authority system of the organization is a second critical factor in the
25. Under path-goal theory, researchers assert that there is only one type of leadership style
that is suffice, for all situations that criminal justice organizations encounter. True or
26. The process of how leaders transform organizations to yield optimal results is known
27. In order to provide an effective form of leadership it is important to have goal statements
28. Technology is deeply embedded in criminal justice agencies, however, new types of
crime pose a threat to the organizations, all of these crimes pose a threat besides:
A. Identity Theft
B. Internet Sex Predators
C. Terrorists
D. Human Trafficking
29. Demands are being made to criminal justice organizations in order to be flexible and
30. To be an effective it is important to exert control over external environments. True or
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