What are the common errors that are made when completing a performance appraisal for subordinate officers?

What will be an ideal response?


One of the problems with performance appraisals is that police managers attempt to use them for multiple purposes. The purpose of the ratings generally affects how supervisors rate their subordinates. For example, supervisors tend to be more lenient when ratings are used for promotions as compared to when they are used strictly for counseling and improvement. Consequently, when a department attempts to use a single set of ratings for multiple purposes, it tends to distort the ratings and create a variety of problems.

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a. needs b. responsibility c. risk d. pleasure

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Under which social structural theory does violence and retribution become normative values amongst youth who live in gang infested neighborhoods?

a. Strain Theory b. Reaction Formation Theory c. Anomie d. Subculture of Violence Theory

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Which of the following spurred the creation of federal sentencing guidelines?

A. steady increase of death sentences B. increase in crime within prison systems C. growing discontent with indeterminate sentences D. rise in white-collar crimes

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Which of the following statements about developmental theories is false?

a. Developmental theories propose that individuals mature physically, cognitively, and emotionally. b. Developmental theories argue that individuals have normal growth phases in areas such as morality and emotional maturity. c. Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg are well-known developmental theorists. d. Kohlberg's moral stages of development consist of two levels of moral reasoning, with three stages in each level.

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