Assignment:
1. Understand the differences between leadership, power, and authority and how they are applied in the police organization.
2. Identify the different styles of leadership that occur in the police organization.
3. Know the two-factor theories of leadership and how they can be applied in the police department.
4. Understand the contingency approach to leadership and the factors that affect how a police administrator can make decisions.
5. Understand transformational leadership and how it can be used to change the organization, particularly when implementing community policing.
6. Discuss the role the police chief plays and how personnel becomes police executives.
7. Understand the tenure issues facing police chiefs and the politics involved in their dismissal.