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  • 1. Planning in management primarily means?
A) Handling personnel complaints
B) Setting future goals and deciding how to achieve them
C) Allocating tools and equipment
D) Monitoring day-to-day operations
  • 2. Organizing involves?
A) Giving random assignments
B) Solving patrol problems alone
C) Rewarding officers for accomplishments
D) Structuring tasks and grouping responsibilities
  • 3. A manager performing the informational role mainly?
A) Approves leave requests
B) Collects and disseminates relevant data
C) Conducts vehicle inspections
D) Acts as a mediator
  • 4. Staffing ensures?
A) Schedules are created without review
B) The right people are placed in the right positions
C) Budgets remain unchanging
D) Uniforms are properly issued
  • 5. Controlling is best defined as?
A) Comparing actual results with planned standards
B) Creating long-term organizational goals
C) Holding ceremonial functions
D) Selecting employees for promotion
  • 6. A station commander analyzes crime hotspots before designing a deployment plan. This applies the function of?
A) Organizing
B) Planning
C) Coordinating
D) Staffing
  • 7. A police manager assigns officers to units based on their skills. This demonstrates?
A) Controlling
B) Random distribution
C) Staffing
D) Monitoring
  • 8. A unit head creates a flowchart to clarify investigative procedures. This action applies?
A) Monitoring routines
B) Delegation
C) Ceremonial roles
D) Organizing
  • 9. A precinct head motivates personnel by creating shared goals and providing direction. This reflects?
A) Staffing
B) Leading
C) Scheduling
D) Controlling
  • 10. A manager reviews daily reports to detect deviations in checkpoint operations. This demonstrates?
A) Leading
B) Staffing
C) Organizing
D) Controlling
  • 11. A chief allocates equipment based on priority cases. This applies?
A) Effective resource management
B) Passive supervision
C) Non-strategic planning
D) Arbitrary distribution
  • 12. A supervisor evaluates personnel attendance, performance, and discipline before recommending promotions. This uses?
A) Controlling
B) Delegating
C) Leading
D) Staffing
  • 13. Before launching a community program, a commander consults barangay leaders. This uses?
A) Monitoring role
B) Interpersonal role
C) Technical role
D) Figurehead role
  • 14. A police leader resolves conflict between two teams. This applies the?
A) Decisional role
B) Informational role
C) Interpersonal role
D) Informational role
  • 15. A chief reviews alternative deployment strategies and selects the most feasible one. This applies?
A) Informational role
B) Autocratic control
C) Non-participative leadership
D) Decisional role
  • 16. A commander conducts regular briefings to share updated intelligence. This is an example of?
A) Liaison role
B) Entrepreneur role
C) Disseminator role
D) Negotiator role
  • 17. A unit leader adjusts manpower distribution after seeing that one team is overworked. This demonstrates?
A) Staffing
B) Controlling
C) Organizing
D) Directing
  • 18. A precinct manager decides to acquire body cameras instead of additional office supplies after evaluating operational needs. This applies?
A) Standardized rotation
B) Passive decision-making
C) Preference-based budgeting
D) Strategic resource allocation
  • 19. A chief implements stricter documentation after discovering discrepancies in arrest reports. This uses?
A) Controlling
B) Planning
C) Monitoring
D) Organizing
  • 20. A manager groups officers by expertise—traffic control, investigation, patrol. This shows?
A) Planning
B) Staffing
C) Leading
D) Controlling
  • 21. After analyzing workload, a commander chooses to delegate certain administrative tasks to senior officers. This demonstrates?
A) Poor planning
B) Ceremonial leadership
C) Managing resources through delegation
D) Ineffective management
  • 22. A manager gathers all weekly reports to understand trends and improve performance. This uses?
A) Informational role (monitoring)
B) Ceremonial function
C) Decisional role (negotiator)
D) Interpersonal role (liaison)
  • 23. A station chief decides to hire more civilian support staff after identifying administrative overload. This uses?
A) Controlling
B) Staffing
C) Leading
D) Organizing
  • 24. A unit commander changes the patrol schedule based on recent threat assessments. This applies?
A) Non-intervention
B) Planning with adaptive strategy
C) Passive coordination
D) Organizing
  • 25. A “top-level manager” is primarily responsible for?
A) Monitoring frontline tasks
B) Drafting daily schedules
C) Setting organizational direction
D) Handling customer complaints
  • 26. Middle managers are mainly involved in?
A) Creating national policies
B) Translating goals into departmental plans
C) Implementing community programs alone
D) Supervising individual work pieces
  • 27. The autocratic management style is best described as?
A) Decisions are made collectively
B) Workers negotiate all operations
C) Leader makes decisions without employee input
D) Employees work with minimal guidance
  • 28. A characteristic of an effective leader is?
A) Regularly delegating all tasks
B) Ability to influence and inspire others
C) Dependence on strict authority
D) Avoiding interaction with subordinates
  • 29. A “first-line supervisor” generally focuses on?
A) Long-term strategic position of the agency
B) Direct management of day-to-day operations
C) Assessment of national budgets
D) Modification of national doctrines
  • 30. Democratic managers usually?
A) Dictate all actions
B) Avoid communication
C) Promote rigid rule-following
D) Encourage participation and team input
  • 31. Managers differ from leaders mainly because managers?
A) Inspire change
B) Operate only through delegation
C) Focus on systems and structure
D) Challenge norms
  • 32. A leader’s emotional intelligence is mainly associated with?
A) Physical endurance
B) Ability to handle and understand emotions
C) Strict rule enforcement
D) Rapid technical skill acquisition
  • 33. A supervisor who routinely checks compliance and imposes close oversight is showing characteristics most similar to?
A) Laissez-faire management
B) Bureaucratic management
C) Strategic leadership
D) Transformational leadership
  • 34. A manager evaluates the performance of two departments and notices that one excels due to participative decision-making. This reflects analysis of?
A) Structural hierarchy
B) Wage distribution
C) Management style influence
D) External threats
  • 35. A middle manager identifies conflict between frontline workers and top management. Their role here illustrates?
A) Linking operational and strategic levels
B) Executing tactical arrest procedures
C) Designing frontline routines
D) Conducting intelligence investigations
  • 36. When comparing leaders and managers, which situation best highlights the difference?
A) Both interpret policies the same way
B) A manager gives instructions while a leader encourages commitment
C) Both handle scheduling similarly
D) A manager inspires while a leader monitors
  • 37. A team with declining morale responds positively after a leader introduces shared vision and encouragement. This change indicates?
A) Transformational influence
B) Autocratic control
C) Mechanical routine
D) Laissez-faire management
  • 38. An officer notes that employees under a democratic style produce more creative outputs than those under an autocratic style. The officer is analyzing?
A) Effects of leadership style on performance
B) Task assignment accuracy
C) Staffing distribution
D) Organizational budgeting
  • 39. A frontline supervisor compares two managers: one focuses on performance metrics, while the other emphasizes interpersonal motivation. This comparison reflects differences in?
A) Recruitment and selection
B) Technical and political skills
C) Budgeting and auditing
D) Managerial roles and leadership qualities
  • 40. When an organization faces slow response times due to rigid rules, it suggests the manager leans toward?
A) Contingency style
B) Charismatic style
C) Bureaucratic style
D) Visionary style
  • 41. A commander must choose which management style best fits a high-risk operation. The most effective option is?
A) Autocratic, for quick, clear decisions
B) Democratic, to maximize discussion
C) Laissez-faire, to reduce oversight
D) Bureaucratic, to follow lengthy processes
  • 42. A station chief must decide which employee is more suited for promotion: one with strong technical skills or one with strong leadership qualities. A well-evaluated choice prioritizes?
A) Technical skills, because they reflect faster task completion
B) The employee with more overtime hours
C) Neither; seniority alone should decide
D) Leadership qualities, because they drive overall team performance
  • 43. When selecting a management approach for community policing, the most appropriate evaluation is?
A) Laissez-faire style because it minimizes supervision
B) Democratic/participative style to promote community involvement
C) Autocratic style because it avoids negotiation
D) Bureaucratic style to focus on documentation
  • 44. A chief compares two leaders: one achieves compliance by rewards/punishment, the other inspires higher personal motivation. An evaluative judgment suggests?
A) Both are equally effective in all situations
B) Transactional leadership builds stronger emotional connection
C) Transformational leadership produces deeper commitment
D) Transactional leadership is more effective for long-term cultural change
  • 45. A manager must decide who is more effective: a visionary leader with weak planning skills or a structured manager with strong planning but no influence. The better choice for organizational stability is?
A) Structured manager
B) Visionary leader
C) Neither is useful
D) Both contribute equally
  • 46. A station head must select a team leader for a new community program. The evaluation should prioritize candidates who?
A) Avoid giving feedback
B) Rely strictly on rule enforcement
C) Display strong interpersonal and motivational skills
D) Prefer working alone
  • 47. To enhance innovation in the department, the most effective leadership style to adopt is?
A) Bureaucratic
B) Laissez-faire
C) Democratic or transformational
D) Autocratic
  • 48. A top-level manager evaluates whether to centralize or decentralize tasks. For faster operations with high team capability, the better decision is?
A) Delay decisions until controversy fades
B) Maintain full authority with no delegation
C) Decentralize to empower unit-level decisions
D) Centralize to maintain strict control
  • 49. When assessing whether a newly assigned supervisor is effective, the strongest indicator is?
A) Desire to avoid meetings
B) High number of reprimands issued
C) Strictness in issuing memos
D) Ability to improve team performance and morale
  • 50. Decision-making is best described as?
A) Randomly choosing a course of action
B) Assigning tasks based on seniority
C) Selecting the best alternative among several options
D) Listing problems without solutions
  • 51. Problem-solving differs from decision-making because problem-solving
A) Is only applicable to group settings
B) Requires no analysis
C) Involves identifying root causes of an issue
D) Focuses solely on evaluating alternatives
  • 52. Individual decision-making is most commonly characterized by?
A) Faster processing with less consultation
B) Long negotiation cycles
C) Heavy dependence on committee
D) Unlimited data sources
  • 53. Group decision-making is advantageous mainly because it?
A) Eliminates conflict completely
B) Removes the need for leadership
C) Always produces faster outcomes
D) Encourages diverse viewpoints
  • 54. Public managers making decisions are expected to prioritize
A) Personal preference
B) Public interest and accountability
C) Departmental competition
D) Workplace convenience
  • 55. A police chief examines crime data to decide where to increase patrol visibility. This shows
A) Data-driven decision-making
B) Personal preference
C) Emotion-based decision-making
D) Random selection
  • 56. An investigator selects a suspect interview strategy after evaluating evidence quality. This is an example of?
A) Guess-based action
B) Passive response
C) Rational decision-making
D) Group delegation
  • 57. A supervisor chooses to hold a short huddle before operations to collect input from officers. This applies?
A) Improvised management
B) Group decision-making technique
C) Delayed decision-making
D) Autocratic decision-making
  • 58. A commander confronted with an active threat must quickly analyze limited information. The technique applied is?
A) Multi-week planning
B) Formal committee review
C) Avoidance of responsibility
D) Intuitive or rapid decision-making
  • 59. A station head assigns additional foot patrol to a plaza area after reviewing previous incidents. This reflects?
A) Preference-based policing
B) Arbitrary enforcement
C) Emotional reaction
D) Data-oriented reasoning
  • 60. When a manager consults experienced officers before finalizing a new policy, this shows use of?
A) Autocratic decision styles
B) Group consultation
C) Trial-and-error technique
D) Passive listening
  • 61. An officer responds to a complex case by breaking it into smaller issues to address each separately. This applies?
A) Emotional prioritization
B) Systematic problem-solving
C) Improvised decision-makin
D) Fragmented policing
  • 62. A chief following a quick-decision guide immediately checks reliability of available information before acting. This is an example of?
A) Reactive approach
B) Structured rapid assessment
C) Delayed decision
D) Complete delegation
  • 63. When a manager reviews several alternatives and selects the one with the least risk, the style used is?
A) Random elimination
B) Risk-minimization decision
C) Passive approach
D) Escalation of commitment
  • 64. A police commander uses checklists to evaluate emergency options. This technique supports?
A) Fast and guided decision-making
B) Flexible improvisation
C) Unstructured judgment
D) Emotional reasoning
  • 65. A manager compares the outcomes of individual vs group decisions and observes that group decisions have more ideas but take longer. This identifies?
A) Equal strengths for all tasks
B) The dominance of individual style
C) Trade-offs between speed and diversity
D) No difference in effectiveness
  • 66. A police chief analyzes why decisions during nighttime operations are poorer and finds lack of reliable data. This factor relates to?
A) Leadership failure
B) Emotional bias
C) Excessive supervision
D) Information deficiency
  • 67. A supervisor notices officers solve problems efficiently but delay decisions requiring choices between strategic options. This highlights the difference that?
A) Decision-making selects among alternatives, while problem-solving diagnoses issues
B) Both processes are identical
C) Decision-making needs no alternatives
D) Problem-solving is faster than all decisions
  • 68. A chief compares two decision styles: one relies on experience, the other on statistical data. The difference illustrates?
A) Traditional vs modern methods
B) Intuitive vs analytical decision-making
C) Forced vs voluntary participation
D) Passive vs aggressive policing
  • 69. Investigators reviewing why a case remained unsolved conclude that decisions were influenced by personal assumptions instead of evidence. This shows?
A) Balanced thinking
B) Strong data-driven reasoning
C) Cognitive bias
D) Logical evaluation
  • 70. A manager analyzes decision failures during emergencies and discovers the team lacked clear priorities. This indicates a breakdown in?
A) Staffing and hiring
B) Rapid decision frameworks
C) Emotional maturity
D) Data collection
  • 71. A police leader notes that group decision-making produced a more acceptable plan but also created delays. The leader is analyzing?
A) Individual preferences only
B) Process efficiency and consensus building
C) Pressure methods
D) Unequal workloads
  • 72. Comparing two commanders, one uses SWOT analysis while the other acts instantly based on gut feeling. This contrast demonstrates differences in
A) Data collection vs delegation
B) Formal vs intuitive decision styles
C) Staffing vs organizing
D) Passive vs participative management
  • 73. A supervisor reviews why a rapid decision in an arrest situation succeeded and finds it followed a checklist for risk assessment. This analysis highlights
A) Accidental outcome
B) Guided quick-decision technique
C) Emotional instinct dominance
D) Lack of structure
  • 74. When a manager evaluates the influence of stress, time pressure, and incomplete data on decisions, the manager is analyzing?
A) External factors affecting decision-making
B) Leadership quality alone
C) Employee discipline levels
D) Pure internal motivations
  • 75. Planning as a management function is best defined as
A) Supervising employees’ daily tasks
B) Setting objectives and determining how to achieve them
C) Monitoring employee behavior
D) Creating informal work groups
  • 76. The organizing function primarily involves
A) Structuring work and allocating resources
B) Facilitating informal discussions
C) Evaluating the budget
D) Rewarding performance
  • 77. A manager performing the interpersonal role is focused on
A) Handling disturbances
B) Processing financial records
C) Gathering and disseminating data only
D) Communicating with employees and maintaining relationships
  • 78. Staffing as a management function refers to
A) Ensuring the organization has the right people in the right jobs
B) Assigning crimes to investigators
C) Monitoring compliance with regulations
D) Setting long-term organizational goals
  • 79. Controlling in management includes
A) Collecting random feedback
B) Comparing actual performance with standards
C) Guessing future trends
D) Reorganizing work positions
  • 80. A station commander conducts a needs assessment before allocating patrol vehicles to high-risk areas. The commander is applying
A) Controlling
B) Staffing
C) Leading
D) Planning
  • 81. A supervisor groups officers into specialized teams (traffic, investigation, community relations). This demonstrates
A) Staffing
B) Delegating informally
C) Organizing
D) Random tasking
  • 82. An officer-in-charge motivates personnel by setting clear expectations and providing regular guidance. This reflects the function of
A) Planning
B) Leading
C) Controlling
D) Staffing
  • 83. A manager evaluates a unit’s performance report to identify deviations from the patrol plan. This represents
A) Controlling
B) Organizing
C) Delegation
D) Staffing
  • 84. A chief decides to recruit additional personnel due to growing community demands. This applies which function?
A) Staffing
B) Controlling
C) Planning
D) Leading
  • 85. An operations head distributes limited fuel resources by prioritizing patrol areas with high crime rates. This is an example of
A) Unplanned expenditure
B) Ineffective resource control
C) Rational resource allocation
D) Improvised budgeting
  • 86. A manager assigns officers based on their strengths—investigators to investigations, communicators to community relations. This demonstrates
A) Strategic job placement
B) Task rotation
C) Random staffing
D) Automatic delegation
  • 87. A commander sets measurable performance indicators before the start of a patrol cycle. This is an example of
A) Coordinating
B) Planning
C) Organizing
D) Leading
  • 88. A supervisor notices that a newly implemented traffic scheme is not effective and revises the deployment plan. This role best represents
A) Formal ceremonial
B) Decisional
C) Informational
D) Interpersonal
  • 89. A manager conducts regular briefings to ensure information is shared among officers. This addresses which managerial role?
A) Disturbance handler role
B) Figurehead role
C) Disseminator role
D) Negotiator role
  • 90. When a police chief resolves conflict between two departments, the chief is applying the
A) Controlling function
B) Decisional role
C) Staffing function
D) Informational role
  • 91. A station head monitors fuel usage, vehicle maintenance, and manpower hours to reduce waste. This is an example of
A) Mismanagement of resources
B) Arbitrary allocation
C) Passive oversight
D) Effective resource manageme
  • 92. A unit commander implements a new reporting system after noticing communication delays. This shows
A) Staffing adjustments
B) Purely informational role
C) Leading through example
D) Decisional role as an entrepreneur
  • 93. A manager compares expected results from the monthly patrol plan with actual accomplishments. The manager is performing
A) Coordinating
B) Controlling
C) Staffing
D) Planning
  • 94. Before launching a new crime prevention program, the chief consults stakeholders and gathers community data. This demonstrates application of
A) Restrictive leading
B) Evidence-based planning
C) Informal organizing
D) Random decision-making
  • 95. After evaluating personnel capability, a chief assigns a skilled negotiator to handle community disputes. This is an application of
A) Controlling through delegation
B) Staffing based on suitability
C) Organizing through random selection
D) Leading through rule enforcement
  • 96. A manager updates the crime database and shares trends with investigators. This shows
A) Ceremonial function
B) Decisional budgeting role
C) Informational role (disseminator)
D) Interpersonal relationship-building
  • 97. A chief must choose between purchasing new radios or repairing old patrol vehicles. Selecting the option with the highest operational benefit reflects
A) Strategic resource management
B) Emotional decision-making
C) Short-term guessing
D) Random budgeting
  • 98. After identifying ineffective performance in a team, the supervisor conducts coaching sessions. This is an example of
A) Controlling
B) Organizing
C) Staffing
D) Leading
  • 99. A manager realigns personnel after noticing workload imbalance among teams. This is applying
A) Informal staffing
B) General delegation
C) Leading through orders
D) Organizing for efficiency
  • 100. During a checkpoint operation, the team leader must decide whether to reroute officers due to unexpected vehicle congestion. Applying the steps of decision-making, what should be his next action after identifying the problem and gathering relevant traffic data?
A) Assign the decision to the most senior officer present
B) Implement a random strategy to avoid delays
C) Analyze possible options and choose the most feasible course of action
D) Wait for instructions from higher headquarters before acting
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