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NCO Academy PME
Chp 13 Resource Management
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5th Grade
06/15/2010

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Term
Who must safeguard and protect Air Force property from fraud, waste and abuse (FWA)?
Definition
Everyone
Term
Who plays a key role as change agent in managing organizational change - a complicated, often painful process?
Definition
SNCOs
Term
Psychologist Kurt Lewin recommends leaders view any change effort as
a three-stage process, excluding
Definition
identifying.
Term
What is the first stage of managing organizational change?
Definition
Unfreezing
Term
Which statement about managing organizational change is false?
Definition
The first step of unfreezing is to generate a good plan.
Term
Unfreezing is an organization's deliberate _____ for change.
Definition
Preparation
Term
What is usually the first reaction to organizational change?
Definition
Resistance
Term
Uncertainty is one of the four common forms of resistance to organizational change. The other three do not include
Definition
denial.
Term
The five proven methods leaders use to manage and reduce resistance during organizational change do not include
Definition
determination and awards.
Term
Successful leaders break organizational change into sequential steps. Why is the first step important?
Definition
Its visible success may increase support for the rest.
Term
Its visible success may increase support for the rest.
Definition
Careful planning
Term
What is the organizational change agent's role in the changing stage?
Definition
To monitor the change as it occurs and its effects on personnel
Term
During the changing stage of organizational change, remember to provide _____ support and offer encouragement and advice.
Definition
Socio-emotional
Term
When problems arise during organizational change, what actions should the change agent consider?
Definition
Return to the unfreezing stage and regroup.
Term
What is the final stage in the organizational change process?
Definition
Refreezing
Term
During the refreezing step of organizational change, the change agent
does not
Definition
actively encourage the use of old techniques.
Term
Trust and ethical behavior are two of the five critical attributes that
determine a team's operational health and success. Which attribute is
not critical for team building?
Definition
Competition
Term
Which attribute is at the center of all healthy team interactions?
Definition
Trust
Term
Freedom to communicate openly, honestly and directly within a team is a description of
Definition
trust.
Term
Trust within a team does not require
Definition
reserved communication.
Term
_____ behaviors in a team conform to accepted principles of right and wrong including honesty, integrity and concern for doing what is right.
Definition
Ethical
Term
Teams share _____ freely in order to
successfully build a team.
Definition
Information
Term
Which leader action decreases a team's success?
Definition
Limiting access to all necessary data
Term
Intragroup _____ and outside evaluations help build teams by redirecting their focus and energy and quickly correcting problems.
Definition
Criticism
Term
To successfully build a team, critical judgment and criticisms should
Definition
focus the team's efforts in the right direction.
Term
Which statement about cooperation within a team is false?
Definition
Competition enhances cooperation.
Term
Which description of a healthy team spirit is inaccurate?
Definition
Team members do not risk sharing their ideas and feelings.
Term
What provides a way to establish priorities, choose policies and obtain
the desired results and required resources at an acceptable cost?
Definition
RMS
Term
RMS elements include the financial plan and management and accounting systems. Which is another RMS element?
Definition
* Participatory and committee management
* Resource management teams
* Resource management training
Term
Who reviews, validates and balances the financial plan to ensure successful financial management?
Definition
Commanders
Term
Who supports the organization's mission and the Air Force by providing sound financial management and advice to the commander and staff?
Definition
Comptrollers
Term
In RMS, who plans, directs and coordinates subordinate organizations'
activities?
Definition
Responsibility center managers
Term
Who regulates the consumption of work hours, supplies, services and equipment and shifts resources to or from various production tasks to ensure the proper mix?
Definition
Cost center managers
Term
Who monitors and helps prepare resource estimates and monitors the use of resources in daily operations compared to projected consumption levels?
Definition
RAs
Term
Who determines program priorities and ensures effective allocation of resources in RMS?
Definition
Financial management board
Term
In RMS, who manages commodities and resources integral to the operating activities of the base or unit and provides technical guidance to
base activities on how to use their primary responsibility resources?
Definition
Financial working group
Term
Supply _____ is the effort to conserve, protect, operate and maintain available government supplies,equipment and real property in the best condition, in constant readiness and in the absolute minimum quantity required.
Definition
Discipline
Term
Which statement about property custodians is false?
Definition
Property custodians do not plan and forecast requirements to meet mission goals.
Term
What factor(s) influence a commander's decision regarding the degree of
centralization for resource management?
Definition
Mission needs, resources and managerial environment
Term
Your principal responsibility when dealing with resources that appear to
be cost-free assets is to use them in the most cost-effective manner. All
of these items may appear to be cost-free except
Definition
office supplies.
Term
The Air Force operating budget runs on a fiscal year basis from
Definition
1 October through 30 September.
Term
Which is an example of fraud?
Definition
Any theft or diversion of resources for personal or commercial gain
Term
Which is an example of waste?
Definition
Improper practices not involving prosecutable fraud
Term
Which is an example of abuse?
Definition
Intentional wrongful use of Air Force resources
Term
What is the primary focus and key element of fraud, waste and abuse (FWA) programs?
Definition
Prevention
Term
Who provides policy guidance, develops procedures, and establishes and evaluates the Air Force Complaints and FWA programs?
Definition
Secretary of the Air Force/Inspector General (SAF/IG)
Term
Who investigates criminal allegations of FWA?
Definition
AFOSI
Term
Which statement about FWA complaints is false?
Definition
Information in a disclosure or complaint to an IG is not protected.
Term
FWA complaint information can be disclosed when required by law or
regulation. It may also be disclosed
Definition
* when necessary to take adverse action against a subject.
* with the approval of the SAF/IG.
* according to AFI 91-301.
Term
Your personal identity in an FWA disclosure or complaint to an IG is not
Definition
privileged or confidential.
Term
With regard to FWA complaints,
Definition
whistleblower witnesses have additional rights.
Term
What determines the level of information releasable to whistleblower
witnesses?
Definition
The nature of the allegation and findings
Term
What are the four pillars of the Air Force Environmental Program?
Definition
Restoration, compliance, conservation and pollution prevention
Term
Which statement inaccurately describes the goal of DoD/Air Force environmental programs?
Definition
The Air Force Pollution Prevention (P2) Program reduces the use of nonhazardous resources/products we utilize or dispose of as waste.
Term
The hierarchy of actions to prevent pollution is
Definition
source reduction, recycling, waste treatment and disposal.
Term
Air quality compliance involves preventing, controlling, abating,
documenting and _____ air pollution from stationary and mobile sources.
Definition
Reporting
Term
A water quality compliance program must be established at all Air Force
installations to assess, attain and _____ compliance with applicable federal, state and local water quality regulations and permits.
Definition
Sustain
Term
Which statement about Air Force solid waste compliance is inaccurate?
Definition
The Air Force confines its efforts to protecting the environment and people living and working on its facilities.
Term
The base _____ works with the wing commander to oversee compliance with hazardous waste laws.
Definition
Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health Council
Term
The hazardous waste management program does not include
Definition
reuse of generated waste.
Term
The hazardous materials (HAZMAT) management process manages the
_____ and use of HAZMAT to support Air Force missions, ensures the safety and health of personnel and surrounding communities and minimizes Air Force dependence on HAZMAT.
Definition
Procurement
Term
The Air Force instituted the Hazardous Material Management Process under AFI _____, Hazardous Materials Management, to incorporate an Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health authorization for the use of HAZMAT.
Definition
AFI 32-7086
Term
Executive Order 13423 requires that federal agencies operate cost-effective recycling programs that promote waste prevention and/or _____ of reusable materials in all its facilities.
Definition
Recycling
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