Fire Officer 2

Chapter 12

Knowledge Check

1. Why is feedback critical to the change process?
2. 5. Which type of organizational change affects the skills, performances, attitudes, behaviors, or cultures of the workforce to meet the force of change?
3. How can company officers support their organization in the local lawmaking process?
4. What step of process implementation includes training and development, team building, and feedback?
5. Which common element is contained in most problem-solving models?
6. Company officers acting as change agents during organizational change must be able to:
7. Using humor in a departmental social media post is potentially dangerous and may offend someone because:
8. It is appropriate to begin implementing organizational change when the need for change has been recognized, resistance has been overcome, and a(an):
9. Law enforcement, zoning boards, and fire and emergency services organizations are local government departments that:
10. Encouraging personnel to suggest which organizational changes to make and how to implement them is one way a company officer can:
11. When personnel are unwilling to accept a change, they are in the change process stage of:
12. While not a requirement, having written documentation verifying an interagency aid agreement may aid in:
13. A company officer can utilize personnel to directly affect the change process by:
14. When writing social media/web releases, a guideline is to:
15. What should company officers be aware of regarding North American Native Nations fire agencies located near their own jurisdiction?
16. Level II Company Officers must be able to communicate the need for:
17. Which item should be included within formal intergovernmental agreements?
18. The change process should be viewed as:
19. What is one of the primary ways that local government affects fire and emergency services organizations?
20. What is an external force that may drive internal changes within the fire and emergency services?
21. The large areas of land belonging to the Native Nations of North America are maintained by:
22. Which active state or provincial agency may influence U.S. and Canadian fire and emergency services organizations?
23. What element needs to be included in all change processes because it defines what the change is, why it is important, and how the change will affect the organization and community?
24. One way to increase the likelihood of success for a change process is to divide the process into attainable:
25. What agency would a company officer work alongside at a unified command incident that required closing and repairing roadways?
26. When employees are more concerned about their own situations than with the organization, they are resistant to change because of:
27. What skill must company officers have in order to combat change-induced stress and communicate effectively throughout the change process?
28. Which Level II Company Officer role requires the knowledge of available resources, protocols for acquiring those resources, and existing mutual aid agreements?
29. In order to ensure an effective interagency response, NIMS-based ICS for unified command (UC) should be used as a model for response management in the:
30. Personnel who, as part of the change process, must learn how to operate new, more fuel-efficient apparatus may experience: