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Course Introduction
Leadership Ethics examines the principles and challenges of ethical leadership within organizational and societal contexts. The course explores foundational ethical theories, ethical decision-making frameworks, and the complexities faced by leaders balancing personal values, organizational goals, and stakeholder interests. Students will analyze real-world cases and dilemmas, developing skills to recognize ethical issues, assess consequences, and cultivate integrity, transparency, and accountability in leadership roles. Emphasis is placed on fostering ethical cultures, addressing issues such as corporate social responsibility, diversity and inclusion, and the impact of leadership on ethical climates and long-term organizational success.
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Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership 6th Edition by Craig E. Johnson
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Chapter 1: The Leaders Light or Shadow
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Q1) ______ and ______ represent the power of leaders to either illuminate the lives of their followers or cast them in darkness.
A) Sun/moon
B) Bright/dark
C) Rain/clouds
D) Light/shadow
Answer: D
Q2) Your book discusses some of the common shadows cast by leaders faced with the ethical challenges of leadership. What are the two important questions that arose while identifying these shadows?
Answer: (1) Why is it that, when faced with the same ethical challenges, some leaders cast light and others cast shadows? (2) What steps can we take as leaders to cast more light than shadow?
Answer Location: The Shadow of Irresponsibility
Q3) Hard power uses bonuses, raises, or threats to get people to go along.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows
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Q1) ______ are our beliefs about other groups of people.
A) Stereotypes
B) Ethnocentrism
C) Moral reasoning
D) Prejudice
Answer: A
Q2) All of the following are examples of internal enemies or monsters, EXCEPT: ______.
A) fear
B) anxiety
C) functional atheism
D) denying death
Answer: B
Q3) ______ are colluders who are "true believers."
A) Machiavellians
B) Acolytes
C) Moral reasoners
D) Anarchists
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Leaders Character
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Q1) All of the following are examples of Allport's six major value types EXCEPT:
A) constructive
B) aesthetic
C) social
D) political
Answer: A
Q2) Which virtue is made up of self-awareness, openness, and transcendence?
A) Reverence
B) Integrity
C) Humility
D) None of these
Answer: C
Q3) Name and describe Allport's six major value types. Provide an original example of an occupation that fits into each type.
Answer: Theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political, and religious. Other responses will vary.
Answer Location: Identifying Values
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Chapter 4: Combating Evil
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Q1) The evil as choice perspective emphasizes the motivations behind evil.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a danger posed by workplace spirituality?
A) Imposing particular religious or spiritual views on followers
B) Demanding unquestioning obedience
C) Using spirituality as a tool to increase productivity
D) All of these
Q3) Religion and spirituality are interchangeable terms.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ______ promotes honesty, sincerity, and candor.
A) Justice
B) Mutuality
C) Integrity
D) Humility
Q5) A number of scholars argue that we become good or evil through a series of small, incremental decisions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: General Ethical Perspectives
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Q1) Team building is an example of ______ type of altruistic behavior.
A) individual-focused
B) group-focused
C) organizational-focused
D) societal-focused
Q2) ______ altruistic attitudes and actions include demonstrating commitment and loyalty, protecting organizational resources, and whistleblowing.
A) Organizational-focused
B) Individual-focused
C) Group-focused
D) Societal-focused
Q3) From a ______ perspective, businesses and other organizations function as moral communities in which members have a significant voice in the rules and policies that govern them.
A) pluralistic
B) Kantian
C) self-sacrificing
D) pragmatic
Q4) As a follower, how can you resist bad leaders?
Q5) Describe the applications of pragmatism.
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making and Behavior
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Q1) ______ refers to the ability to identify important issues, determine priorities, and sort out competing values.
A) Moral identification
B) Moral imagination
C) Moral disagreement
D) Moral competence
Q2) Rewards encourage decision makers to follow through on their ethical choices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Anger, disgust, and contempt are other-suffering emotions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sympathy and compassion are other-praising emotions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Name and describe Kohlberg's first level of moral development.
Q6) Briefly discuss the significance of the Lonergan/Baird method.
Q7) Describe and briefly explain the four components of moral action.
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Q8) Develop your own decision-making format. Outline each step and explain why it is important.
Chapter 7: Exercising Ethical Influence
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Q1) What did you learn about the Pygmalion effect that could be helpful to know in light of the expectations of leaders on their followers?
Q2) According to Kassing's five strategies, ______ is vowing to quit in order to get the management to respond.
A) threatening resignation
B) repetition
C) direct-factual appeals
D) solution presentations.
Q3) "The United States imprisons too many of its citizens," is a form of grounds, according to Toulmin's model.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leadership is based on the exercise of ______.
A) power
B) control
C) influence
D) liking
Q5) Discuss Infante's five skills that make up argumentative competence. How could you apply this skills in the workplace?
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Chapter 8: Normative Leadership Theories
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Q1) Do you think that authenticity is the most important source of ethical leadership? Why or why not?
Q2) Simplicity is a strength of servant leadership.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who is credited with sparking contemporary interest in servant leadership?
A) James MacGregor Burns
B) Margaret Wheatley
C) Robert Greenleaf
D) Scott Peck
Q4) Name five products of pseudo-transformational leadership.
Q5) Name and define the four components of authentic leadership.
Q6) Taoism has the most to say about the abuse of power and privilege.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Responsible leadership is an offshoot of global ______.
A) servant leadership
B) social capital
C) stewardship
D) corporate social responsibility
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Chapter 9: Building an Effective, Ethical Small Group
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Q1) ______ is typically considered the maximum size for a small group because beyond this number members can no longer communicate face to face.
A) Five
B) Ten
C) Twenty
D) Twenty-Five
Q2) ______ is used to describe the fact that individuals often reduce their efforts when placed in a group.
A) Social thinking
B) Groupthink
C) Social loafing
D) Social idea
Q3) ______ is how much a person expects that his or her effort will lead to high group performance.
A) Expectancy
B) Instrumentality
C) Social loafing
D) Groupthink
Q4) Explain why social loafing is unethical.
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Chapter 10: Creating an Ethical Organizational Climate
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Q1) ______ discovers core values by identifying and building on organizational strengths.
A) Reliability
B) Civility
C) Integrity
D) Appreciative inquiry
Q2) ______ are among the most common ethics tools.
A) Regulatory codes
B) Codes of ethics
C) Societal norms
D) Rules
Q3) ______ describes how individuals make the transition from outsiders to organizational members.
A) Socialization
B) Metamorphosis
C) Corporate social responsibility
D) Social cocoon
Q4) Explain why shaping ethical climate is one of an organizational leader's most important tasks. Provide examples from your own experience and observations.
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Chapter 11: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in a Global Society
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Q1) Finland is an example of a feminine culture.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define cosmopolitanism.
Q3) Greece is an example of a low uncertainty avoidant society.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Mexico is an example of a low-power distance culture.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The United Nations recently launched the ______ to encourage multinational corporations to honor human rights, labor rights, and the environment while, at the same time, fighting corruption.
A) Abilene paradox
B) Global compact
C) Mission exchange
D) NATO
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Q6) Identify the differences between a collective and individualistic culture. What are two examples of each?
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Chapter 12: Ethical Crisis Leadership
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Q1) Investigation and analysis take place during Stage 2 of the three-stage crisis model.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Good communication skill is one marker of a resilient organizational culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss the virtues that extreme leaders demonstrate.
Q4) ______ learns from a crisis by looking for its causes.
A) Introspective sensemaking
B) Introspection
C) Retrospective sensemaking
D) Retrospection
Q5) Is strategic ambiguity always unethical in crisis situations? Why or why not?
Q6) Which company demonstrated the ethic of care in its response to a crisis?
A) Toyota
B) McDonalds
C) Dominos
D) BP
Q7) Discuss the 10 types of crises from Seeger, Sellnow, and Ulmer.
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