Human Resource Management Ethics
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Human Resource Management Ethics examines the ethical principles, dilemmas, and responsibilities that HR professionals encounter in the workplace. The course covers topics such as ethical decision-making models, privacy and confidentiality, equity and fairness in recruitment and selection, diversity and inclusion, handling grievances, and corporate social responsibility. Students will explore real-world case studies and develop critical thinking skills to apply ethical frameworks in various human resource scenarios, ensuring that their practices promote organizational integrity and respect for all stakeholders.
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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) The head of ISIS would be an example of a(n) ______ leader.
A) evil
B) abusive
C) tyrannical
D) rigid
Answer: A
Q2) ______ power uses inducements (bonuses, raises) and threats (arrests, firings) to get people to go along, while ______ power is based on attracting others rather than forcing them or inducing them to comply.
A) Derailed/referent
B) Hard/soft
C) Mismanaged/inconsistent
D) Loyal/disloyal
Answer: B
Q3) Leaders have more access to ______ than do others in an organization.
A) stocks
B) salary
C) communication
D) information
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows
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Q1) Hiding suffering is one way to disregard the consequences of harmful actions and reduce the likelihood of self-recrimination.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) All of the following were identified in the text as signs of selfishness EXCEPT:
A) obsession
B) greed
C) narcissism
D) Machiavellianism
Answer: A
Q3) Theories about how the world operates are assumptions that have to do with determining the consequences of choices, judging risks, and identifying causes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Name and define two types of faulty beliefs that can lead to poor ethical decisions. Answer: (1) unsound assumptions and (2) failure of moral imagination.
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Chapter 3: The Leaders Character
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Q1) What are the five common hardship events that leaders face?
Answer: Business mistakes and failures, career setbacks, personal trauma, problem employees, and downsizing.
Q2) ______ thinkers seek unity through understanding and relating to the cosmos as a whole.
A) Religious
B) Prudent
C) Courageous
D) Social
Answer: A
Q3) Name the five components with which organizations can promote the development of moral identity.
Answer: (1) providing opportunities to practice virtues, (2) creating positive moral climates where cooperative relationships can flourish, (3) making space for moral discussion and reflection, (4) continuously emphasizing values and mission, and (5) encouraging ongoing involvement in the local community.
Q4) From a philosophical perspective, virtues have four important features. Name these four virtues and describe each briefly.
Answer: Varies
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Chapter 4: Combating Evil
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Q1) ______ is likely to continue when others fail to intervene to stop it.
A) Power
B) Evil
C) Wrongdoing
D) Care
Q2) ______ evil is based on technology and logic.
A) Administrative
B) Ordinary
C) Deception
D) Coercive
Q3) Describe the benefits of apologies.
Q4) Which "face of evil" forces us to examine our motives?
A) Dreadful approach
B) Deception approach
C) Administrative approach
D) Sanctioned destruction approach
Q5) Dispute resolution expert Susan Opotow believes that moral exclusion progresses through five states or elements that reinforce one another and can become a vicious cycle that ends in death and destruction. What are these five states?
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Q6) Discuss some of the "wrong" ways to apologize.
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Chapter 5: General Ethical Perspectives
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Q1) Discuss Virginia Held's five key components of the care ethic.
Q2) According to ______, each person has an equal right to the same basic liberties that are compatible with similar liberties for all.
A) Rawls
B) Kant
C) Dewey
D) Bentham
Q3) Ethical pluralism refers to
A) the absence of moral standards
B) the search for ethical diversity
C) the creation of ethical consensus
D) the combining of perspectives to resolve ethical problems
Q4) Describe, as a leader, how you would use a pragmatic approach to leading others. What are the cautions involved with pragmatism and how would you combat these cautions?
Q5) Utilitarian decision-makers almost always reach the same conclusions when faced with the same dilemma.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making and Behavior
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Q1) Implementation is a strength of the ethical checkpoints format.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the Foursquare Protocol Element 1, you need to dig into the facts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One of the cons of the Lonergan/Baird method is that it is not widely used.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Determining the actor is one of Kidder's nine ethical checkpoints.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Psychologists report that self-interest and _________ undermine moral motivation.
A) hypocrisy
B) ethics
C) fear
D) hate
Q6) How can you increase your sensitivity to ethical issues?
Q7) Explain the roles that emotions play in ethical decision-making and action.
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Chapter 7: Exercising Ethical Influence
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Q1) Supervisors and instructors signal positive expectations by giving adequate time to employees and students, holding appointments in pleasant surroundings, sitting or standing close to workers or class members, nodding and smiling, making frequent eye contact, and using a warm tone of voice.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Profanity is an example of aggressive tactics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ______ means attacking the person instead of the argument.
A) Ad hoc
B) Ad hominem
C) Verbal aggression
D) Conflict
Q4) Discuss Fisher, Ury, and Patton's four steps of principled negotiation.
Q5) According to Kassing's research, of all the five strategies, threatening resignation does the most relational damage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Normative Leadership Theories
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Q1) To which two leadership shadows does Taoism speaks MOST directly?
A) Power and loyalty.
B) Deceit and irresponsibility
C) Power and privilege
D) Inconsistency and irresponsibility
Q2) Describe the positive effects that authentic leaders have on followers.
Q3) Transformational leadership has been criticized as ______ for paying too much attention to leaders.
A) leader heavy
B) leader powerful
C) leader exchange
D) leader centric
Q4) ______ is integral to aesthetic leadership.
A) Self-awareness
B) Ethics
C) Morality
D) Communication
Q5) According to Bass and Avolio, what are the characteristics of transformational leadership?
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Q6) Name and define the four components of authentic leadership.
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Chapter 9: Building an Effective, Ethical Small Group
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Q1) Controlling messages imply that the recipient is inadequate.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In ethical problem-solving groups, therapeutic listening is more important than other types of listening.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Explain why social loafing is unethical.
Q4) In ______ conflict, participants argue about the proposal before the group.
A) comprehensive
B) argumentative
C) substantive
D) dogmatic
Q5) Name and explain the eight symptoms of groupthink.
Q6) All of the following are suggestions for addressing the ethical challenges of virtual teams EXCEPT:
A) create very large groups
B) set clear timelines and hold members to them
C) communicate frequently
D) establish a clear procedure for managing conflicts
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Chapter 10: Creating an Ethical Organizational Climate
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Q1) ______ climates are governed by the policies, rules, and procedures developed in the organization.
A) Roles
B) Rules
C) Purpose
D) Organization
Q2) Name five steps leaders take to prevent and control destructive behaviors.
Q3) Appreciative inquiry discovers and builds on the organization's strengths.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ______ refers to consciously trying to hurt others or the organization itself.
A) Aggression
B) Incivility
C) Evil
D) Deviance
Q5) Organizational members experience ______ when rules lose their force.
A) reinforcement
B) anomie
C) integrity
D) compliance
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Chapter 11: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in a Global Society
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Q1) Broken communication cast shadows in a global society just as they do in individual leader-follower relationships.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ is the extent to which a society fosters and reinforces such future-oriented activities as planning and investing.
A) Assertiveness
B) Performance orientation
C) Future orientation
D) Humane orientation
Q3) People who live in a low uncertainty avoidance culture are more comfortable with uncertainty, viewing ambiguity as a fact of life.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Members of ______ cultures are more likely to take risks.
A) collectivistic
B) individualistic
C) low uncertainty avoidance
D) high-power distance
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Chapter 12: Ethical Crisis Leadership
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Q1) ______ is defined as "a firm's ability to make decisions based on comprehensive information and analysis."
A) Expertise
B) Rationality
C) Resilience
D) Transparency
Q2) Observers also expect corporations to anticipate potential harm-the
A) intention effect
B) openness effect
C) crisis effect
D) foresight effect
Q3) Is strategic ambiguity always unethical in crisis situations? Why or why not?
Q4) ______ are employees who go public about organizational misbehavior.
A) Gossipers
B) Steam blowers
C) Whistle-blowers
D) Grassroot workers
Q5) Define strategic ambiguity.
Q6) Identify and debunk the five unethical beliefs about crisis management.
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