Chapter 14 Practice Quiz

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. Organizations are collectives of individuals organized into groups with identifiable boundaries and internal structures, engaging in activities designed to achieve a set of goals.

. The importance/usefulness dilemma describes the establishment of different qualifications as absolute requirements for being hired as a police officer, correctional officer, prosecutor, etc.

. Bona fide occupational qualifications state the more important is the performance evaluation for a candidate's career, the greater the likelihood evaluators are not going to provide useful distinctions among candidates.

. Ethical proactivity would involve, as part of a criminal justice agency's operational mandate, members of an internal affairs unit meeting with representatives from other units/divisions/offices in the agency to discuss ethical issues.

. Ethical issues in criminal justice, whether involving the police, the courts, corrections, forensic science, or research involving human subjects, all involve behavior and the break-down of constraints on it.

. These are collectives of individuals organized into groups with identifiable boundaries and internal structures, engaging in activities designed to achieve a set of goals.

. A set of offices (e.g., ranks in a police department) organized into a hierarchy, with a clear division of labor, which is guided or governed by formal rules:

. This concept denotes that organizations possess a mix of interrelated labor processes that are both separated from one another yet coordinated by managerial authority.

. These describe the many competing and conflicting purposes often found in complex organizations like a prosecutor's office in a large county or a large municipal police department.

. Which concept describes the notion that criminal justice agency administrators, managers, and supervisors have to demonstrate appropriate (i.e., ethical) behavior?

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