Answers | Professional Prep | Grade A+
• Nationally recognized professional standards . ANSWER: Are only legal
mandates when adopted by local jurisdictions and serve as models of acceptable
performance
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) . ANSWER: establishes and
publishes codes, standards, guidelines, and recommended practices for the
prevention and control of fire
• Essential elements of a group . ANSWER: Common binding interest, sense of
continuity, shared set of values
• Communication grapevine usually transmits... . ANSWER: Info that can't be
ensured as accurate and official
• Leader of an informal group . ANSWER: The emerging leader regardless of
whether or not a formal selection process has been used
• Ego fulfillment is also known as . ANSWER: Self esteem
• Self actualization . ANSWER: the process by which people achieve their full
potential
• When interacting with the formal and informal groups of an FD company officers
should . ANSWER: Attempt to mesh the organizational values of both groups
together
• Unity of command . ANSWER: The "one supervisor" principle
• Discipline . ANSWER: Setting the limits for expected performance and enforcing
them
• Spam of control . ANSWER: The limit one person can effectively manage
• Division of labor . ANSWER: Breaking down a job into separate, smaller tasks
, • Line-item accounting is a form of: . ANSWER: budgetary control
• Preliminary budgets for the upcoming fiscal year often start with: . ANSWER:
Service levels from the previous year
• Scalar Organizational Structure . ANSWER: Organizational structure that
provides paramilitary, pyramid type of organization with a continuous line of
command and authority centralized at the top
• authority . ANSWER: Legal ability to make and implement decisions
• decentralized authority . ANSWER: When decision-making is delegated to
lower-level managers and employees more familiar with local conditions than
headquarters is.
• centralized authority . ANSWER: an organization structure in which decision-
making authority is maintained at the top level of management
• Certain decision making authority is delegated to lower levels and
communication is enhanced in which type of organizational structure? . ANSWER:
Scalar Organizational Structure
• During which step in the budget process does the chief justify the budget to the
organization as a whole . ANSWER: Internal review
• The first step in the budgeting process . ANSWER: Planning
• NFPA 1500 . ANSWER: Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and
Health Program
• Negligence . ANSWER: The failure to exercise the standard of care that a
reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances.
• Tort . ANSWER: A civil wrong or injury
• Suit . ANSWER: Civil action by an individual against another person or group
• class action . ANSWER: a lawsuit in which the plaintiff or defendant is a
collective group of individuals with one common complaint