Exam 1: What Is It to Be a Professional the Professions, Leadership, and Work

Henry Mintzberg | The Professional Organization Mintzberg first discusses the basic structure and uniqueness of professional organizations and how they differ from machine bureaucracies and innovative organizations. He then presents various forms and models of professional organizations. Finally, he shows how the characteristics of being both democratic and autonomous can lead to favorable as well as unfavorable conditions among professionals. -Two unique characteristics of professionals that can lead to both favorable as well as unfavorable situations are

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -The ___________ of the lawyer guarantees that every criminal defendant, guilty or innocent, deserves to be well represented.

According to Ciulla, it is difficult to find examples of leaders who are both ethical and effective. Do you agree with Ciulla that this is the case and that it is important for educators to not only teach their students "how to do things right" but also to "do the right thing"? Why or why not?

Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues Wasserstrom discusses moral issues that arise when examining the lawyer-client relationship, focusing in particular on role-differentiated behavior among professionals. Providing a number of supporting reasons, he makes a case for a type of "deprofessionalizing" the legal profession that would counter the effects of the usual paternalistic and impersonal relationship between lawyers and clients. -Paternalism occurs when

Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules? Davis criticizes the view that professional responsibility goes beyond merely following the rules of one's code of ethics by necessarily involving certain character virtues. Rather, if a code of ethics is well-written, following these rules means that a professional is acting responsibly. He discusses seven different interpretations of "just following the rules": blind obedience, strict obedience, malicious obedience, negligent obedience, accidental obedience, stupid obedience, concluding with a positive discussion of interpretative obedience. -Most professionals are able to discern whether a particular service is within their area of

Michael D. Bayles | The Professions In this reading, Bayles discusses the characteristics of being a professional and the complex relationship between generally autonomous professionals and their supervisors. He distinguishes between consulting and scholarly professions, concluding with a discussion of how professions monopolize services in order to keep out untrained practitioners. -An important distinction among professionals is between ___________ and consulting work.

Joanne B. Ciulla | What Is Good Leadership? Ciulla discusses the importance have having both an ethical and an effective leader and why it is often difficult to find both qualities in the same individual. When one is emphasized without the other, a leader may have moral character but not be able to effect genuine change or be able to produce end results by questionable means. -Leaders with overzealous moral convictions may be likely to do any of the following EXCEPT

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -Stovall states that professional ethics can be seen as a teleological, or an ___________, subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues.

Ciulla emphasizes humility as a character trait of a good leader. Do you agree with her depiction of how humility functions with respect to being an ethical and effective leader? Why or why not? Provide specific examples.

Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career. -According to Aristotle and many Greek thinkers of his day, the essential function that distinguishes humans from animals is