Exam 6: Courage and Moral Leadership

Briefly describe moral leadership.

_____ requires recognizing and adhering to ethical values and acknowledging the importance of human meaning, quality, and  higher purpose.

The ethical pressures that challenge leaders include:

At the _____ level of personal moral development, an individual follows the rules to avoid punishment.

Participative management encourages managers to direct and control employees.

At the _____ of personal moral development, a leader can balance self-interest with a concern for others and for the common good.

_____ is a belief that leaders are deeply accountable to others as well as to the organization, without trying to control others, define meaning and purpose for others, or take care of others.

In _____, employees are expected to make suggestions for quality improvements, act as team players, and take greater responsibility for their own jobs, but they are not allowed to be true partners in the enterprise.

At the preconventional level of personal moral development, people learn to conform to the expectations of others.

Peers and subordinates with lax ethical standards:

The actions that make leaders go wrong include:

On your first day at D'Liscious Lunches, your new coworker tells you that Danny, your supervisor, is unethical. Which of the following behaviors could you expect Danny to do?

Moral leadership is about:

A leader who is visionary, empowering, and committed to serving others is operating at the postconventional or principled level of personal moral development.

_____ is the mental and moral strength to engage in, persevere through, and withstand danger, difficulty, or fear.

Unethical leaders tend to take all the credit for successes, but they blame others when things go wrong.

Servant leadership is a form of leadership in which:

One of the four basic precepts in Greenleaf's servant leadership model is:

Which of the following forms of leadership emphasizes tight top-down control, employee standardization and specialization, and management by impersonal measurement and analysis?

Describe how the current ethical climate in U.S. business can be improved.