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Leadership Studies explores the theories, principles, and practices of leadership across diverse organizational and social contexts. Students examine classical and contemporary leadership models, develop critical thinking and decision-making skills, and analyze the ethical and cultural dimensions of leadership. The course emphasizes self-assessment, effective communication, team building, and the influence of power and motivation in shaping leaders and organizations. Through case studies, group projects, and reflective exercises, students gain insight into their personal leadership style and strategies for leading effectively in an ever-changing global environment.
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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) Many of history's villains are traitors.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) ______ leaders lack the motivation or the ability to sustain effective action.
A) Callous
B) Rigid
C) Abusive
D) Incompetent
Answer: D
Q3) ______ impression managers meet group wants and needs, not just the needs of the leaders.
A) Idea
B) Prototyped
C) Ethical
D) Loyal
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows
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Q1) Moral justification involves comparing unethical or criminal acts with even worse activities, thus making them appear more tolerable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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) A great deal of destructive leadership behavior is driven by self-centeredness, which manifests itself through pride and greed.
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) Treating others with respect and promoting their development is the most important Confucian virtue of ______.
A) prudence
B) humility
C) benevolence
D) compassion
Answer: C
Q2) Someone who values humility appreciates new ideas and creations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) All of the following are components of humility EXCEPT:
A) self-awareness
B) openness
C) integrity
D) transcendence
Answer: C
Q4) What are the five common hardship events that leaders face?
Answer: Business mistakes and failures, career setbacks, personal trauma, problem employees, and downsizing.
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Chapter 4: Combating Evil
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Q1) In the four strands that explain how warring groups can bind together, ______ is used to restore the broken relationship.
A) empathy
B) commitment
C) forbearance
D) moral truth
Q2) Define workplace spirituality.
Q3) In order for warring groups to reconcile, both parties must acknowledge that one or both caused injury.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which spiritual discipline would be most useful to you as a leader? Describe how you could use this practice to further your development as a leader.
Q5) What role should spirituality play in shaping a leader's ethical decisions and behavior? Defend your position.
Q6) Evildoers are often ordinary people.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: General Ethical Perspectives
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Q1) In ______, people are never a means to an end; they are the ends.
A) altruism
B) utilitarianism
C) functionism
D) pragmatism
Q2) ______ was the dominant philosophical movement in the United States from the Civil War through World War II.
A) Altruism
B) Utilitarianism
C) Functionism
D) Pragmatism
Q3) Caregivers can get caught up in empathy and deny their own needs.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the Good Samaritan in terms of altruism?
Q5) 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?
Q6) What is "the veil of ignorance?"
Q7) Describe the applications of altruism
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Chapter 6: Ethical Decision Making and Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following will increase your ethical sensitivity?
A) Employing euphemisms when talking about unethical behavior
B) Imagining other perspectives
C) Ignoring emotions
D) Relying on external motivation
Q2) ______ and ______ are self-conscious emotions.
A) Embarrassment/guilt
B) Shame/fear
C) Anger/disgust
D) Sympathy/compassion
Q3) Explain the roles that emotions play in ethical decision-making and action.
Q4) All of the following are levels of Kohlberg's moral development EXCEPT:
A) conventional
B) postconceptual
C) preconventional
D) motivational
Q5) Determining the actor is one of Kidder's nine ethical checkpoints.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Briefly discuss the significance of the Lonergan/Baird method.
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Chapter 7: Exercising Ethical Influence
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Q1) What are some of the ethical issues/concerns in negotiation when used in the workplace?
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) According to Kassing's five strategies, ______ describes consistent attempts to draw attention to a problem over an extended period of time.
A) threatening resignation
B) repetition
C) direct-factual appeals
D) solution presentations
Q4) Discuss the significance of communicating high expectations in regard to the leader/follower relationship.
Q5) Discuss the four channels that signal high/low expectations.
Q6) Discuss Fisher, Ury, and Patton's four steps of principled negotiation.
Q7) Discuss two significant elements of Principle U.
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Chapter 8: Normative Leadership Theories
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Q1) Which is a caution of transformational leadership?
A) Undervalues the contributions of leaders
B) Ineffective
C) Recognizes that leaders are born to lead
D) Leader centric
Q2) What common threads or themes do you note in the five normative leadership theories described in the chapter?
Q3) ______ refers to acting on behalf of others.
A) Transactional
B) Servant leadership
C) Aesthetic leadership
D) Stewardship
Q4) Is servant leadership unrealistic? Defend your answer.
Q5) Transformational leaders act as coaches or mentors who foster personal development. This is referred to as
A) inspirational motivation
B) idealized influence
C) intellectual stimulation
D) individualized consideration
Q6) Name and describe the four key concepts of servant leadership.
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Chapter 9: Building an Effective, Ethical Small Group
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Q1) 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
Q2) ______ 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
Q3) Discuss the elements of a small group.
Q4) All of the following are elements of a small group, EXCEPT:
A) loyalty
B) interdependence
C) mutual influence
D) ongoing communication
Q5) How can you use a conflict covenant to improve the productivity of your group?
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Q6) Evaluate a group that you belong to using the standards of teamthink.
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Chapter 10: Creating an Ethical Organizational Climate
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Q1) Justice in the workplace takes all of these forms EXCEPT:
A) procedural
B) interactional
C) distributive
D) relational
Q2) Rates of immoral behavior are highest in organizations with ______ ethical climates.
A) encounter
B) instrumental
C) appreciative
D) inquiry
Q3) ______ ethical climates are driven by external criteria like professional codes of conduct.
A) Instrumental
B) Caring
C) Law and order
D) Rules
Q4) Discuss the four elements of an organization's structure that have a particularly strong impact on moral behavior.
Q5) List at least five positive outcomes of trust in an organization.
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Chapter 11: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership in a Global Society
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Q1) Masculine cultures maintain clearly defined sex roles.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Name three of the articles of the United Nations Declaration of Rights.
Q3) In ______ cultures, there are clear differences in the roles of men and women.
A) feminine
B) masculine
C) uncertainty-avoidant
D) collectivistic
Q4) The feeling of disgust reflects the presence of which moral intuition?
A) Purity/sanctity
B) Authority/respect
C) Harm/care
D) Fairness/reciprocity
Q5) ______ describes paying close attention to our behaviors and interactions.
A) Moral inclusion
B) Dignity
C) Cultural synergy
D) Mindfulness
Q6) Define cosmopolitanism.
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Chapter 12: Ethical Crisis Leadership
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Q1) A ______ is any major unanticipated event that poses a significant threat.
A) cognitive talk
B) self-talk
C) trigger event
D) crisis
Q2) Transparency consists of:
A) openness and rapid response
B) symmetry and strategic ambiguity
C) openness and symmetry
D) thoroughness and concern
Q3) Identify and debunk the five unethical beliefs about crisis management.
Q4) How do you define ethical leadership? Defend your definition and provide supporting evidence.
Q5) Hospital emergency rooms, air traffic control systems, and aircraft carriers are examples of ______.
A) high-reliability organizations
B) low-reliability organizations
C) low uncertainty avoidance
D) high uncertainty avoidance
Q6) Discuss transparency as it relates to openness.
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