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1
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Described by Gary Yukl as the process by which a person influences others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives?

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Leadership

2
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Leaders can be effective only to the extent that followers are willing to accept their leadership?

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Followership

3
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What’s a five step approach to making decisions?

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  1. Clear your mind
  2. List options
  3. Weigh the outcomes
  4. Make a choice
  5. Evaluate decision
4
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What are the three major leadership styles?

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  1. Autocratic
  2. Democratic
  3. Laissez-Faire
5
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This iron-hand approach style of leadership is used when the fire officer needs to maintain high personal control of the group?

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Autocratic

6
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There are two situations in which an autocratic style of leadership is required?

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  1. When fire company is involved in a high-risk, emergency scene activity
  2. When the fire officer needs to take immediate corrective supervisory activity
7
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This consultative approach style of leadership uses all of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the group in determining how to meet an objective or complete a task?

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Democratic

8
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This style of leadership can be used when planning a project or developing the daily work plan of the company. Also, in some low-risk emergency scene operations?

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Democratic

9
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This free-rein style of leadership moves the decision making from the fire officer to the individual fire fighters?

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Laissez-Faire

10
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This is an effective leadership style when working with experienced fire fighters and when handling routine duties that pose little personal hazard?

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Laissez-Faire

11
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The capacity of one party to influence another party?

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Power

12
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What was one of the first works on the management of power?

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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532

13
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What are the different types of power described by French and Raven in the 1959 Studies of Social Power?

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  1. Legitimate Power
  2. Reward Power
  3. Expert Power
  4. Referent Power
  5. Coercive Power
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The target person believes that the agent has the right to make the request and the target person has the obligation to comply?

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Legitimate Power

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The target person complies in order to obtain rewards believed to be controlled by the agent?

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Reward Power

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The target person complies due to a belief that the agent has special knowledge?

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Expert Power

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The target complies due to admiration of or identification with the agent and seeks approval?

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Referent Power

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The target person complies in order to avoid punishment believed to be controlled by the agent?

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Coercive Power

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Professor Gary A. Yukl at the University of Albany updated the French and Raven Studies of Social Power into two types?

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Personal Power and Positional Power

20
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Personal Power includes what two types of power from Studies of Social Power and reflects the effectiveness of the individual?

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  1. Expert Power

2. Referent Power

21
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This type of power is defined by the role an individual has within the organization?

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Positional Power

22
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Positional power includes what three types of power from Studies of Social Power?

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  1. Legitimate Power
  2. Reward Power
  3. Coercive Power
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What are two additional position-based powers provided by Professor Yukl?

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  1. Information Power

2. Ecological Power

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This type of power is based on the target person’s assessment of the agent’s ability to rapidly and efficiently discover or obtain relevant information, usually through a cultivated network of sources?

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Information Power

25
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Control over the physical environment, technology, or organization of work. The target person’s behavior is based on perceptions of opportunities and constraints?

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Ecological Power

26
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For departments that have broad SOPs or none at all, the fire officer has two choices in assigning tasks?

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Pre-Assigning them or assigning them as needed on the scene

27
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What are two obligations required from companies operating within a hot zone or burning structure during a mayday?

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  1. Maintain radio discipline so that command can determine the mayday location and situation
  2. Maintain company or group integrity
28
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The basic leadership concepts prevail when considering two unique challenges?

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  1. Fire station as a work location

2. Leading a volunteer fire company

29
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What are two general house rules for nonemergency activities that the fire officer should establish?

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  1. Do not compromise the ability of the fire company to respond to emergencies in its district
  2. Do not jeopardize the public’s trust in the fire department