Other Frequently Requested Research Topics

General

Officer and career development

• Career development
• Fire Administration I – Chapter 2 "Preparing for Your Future: from a Blue-Collar Job to a Profession"

Titles that discuss standards, qualifications and employment criteria and training

• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1021
• Standards, certification and accreditation
• Qualifications and employment criteria
• Fire officer and fire chief training

Grooming yourself for success

• Mentors and mentoring
• Leadership
• From buddy to boss
• Lessons for new company officers – article

Landing a promotion

Other positions and promotion processes

• Aides to chiefs
• Battalion Chiefs
• Captains
• Deputy chiefs
• Lieutenants
• Shift commanders

Interviews

• Oral interviews

Promotions

• General materials
• Testing and examinations

Wages and salaries

• The Municipal Year Book: See section – Fire department personnel, salaries and expenditures for cities 10,000 and over
• DOL/BLS: Occupational outlook handbook 2010-11 edition: See – Firefighters (some statistics on first line supervisors/managers)
• Occupational employment and wages, May 2010: 33-2011 firefighters
• National Run surveys

How to succeed in your new position

• Professionalism
• Time management
• Personnel management
• Interpersonal communication
• Discipline
• Motivation
• Morale
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Sexual harassment and discrimination

Succession planning

• General materials

Fire chiefs by subcategories

• Employment criteria
• Job descriptions
• Promotions
• Qualifications/Employment criteria
• Skills
• Personality

Fire department organization

• General bibliography
• Chain of command
• Span of control
• Professionalism
• Discipline
• Organizational culture/Behavior
• Interpersonal communication
• Values and ethics