Glossary of 1 Fire Department COMPANY OFFICER 1 2
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Standard on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program - NFPA 1500
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ARFF - Airfield rescue and fire fighting
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Outside Aid - Similar to mutual aid except that payment rather than reciprocal aid is made by one agency to the other
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Unity of Command - Sound organizational theory dictates that each member should report to only one supervisor
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Functional Supervision - When firefighters are assigned by their supervisor to perform duties that fall under the authority of another supervisor
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Span of Control - the number of subordinates that one individual can effectively supervise
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Division of Labor - Breaking large jobs down into smaller tasks that are assigned to specific individuals
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Discipline - Setting the limits or boudaries for expected performance and enforcing them
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Scalar Organizational Structure - Having an uninterrupted series of steps or a chain of authority
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Group - defined as two or more persons who interact with regard to common goals
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One of the greatest influences of the success of a group? - group image
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Stroke - Anything that acknowledges a person's existence
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Modern Management - based on a belief that decisions will be better if everyone has an opportunity to contribute to them
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Self-Directed Work Teams - replace mid-level managers and supervisors with more or less autonomous teams of workers
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"the given" - conditions under which mastery is to be demonstrated
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"the performance" - how mastery is to be demonstrated
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"the standard" - what constitutes mastery
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"instruction order" - to teach starting with the simplest and progressing to the more complex
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"production order" - some skills must be taught by the order they must be done regardless of complexity
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"remediation" - corrective actions necassary when trainee fails to master a small step or unit