Deck 13: Leadership Ethics

Question 1

The personality type that Erich Fromm added to Freud's work was

A) Marketing.
B) Manager.
C) Erotic.
D) Obsessive.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

All of the following are strengths of the psychodynamic approach except

A) It lends itself to training by offering skills and techniques to use.
B) It helps analysis of the relationship between leader and follower.
C) It discourages manipulative techniques in leadership.
D) It emphasizes the need for awareness on the part of the leader.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to Maccoby, how has followership changed in recent times?

A) Parental models of authority have decreased in importance.
B) There is greater emphasis on striving for excellence.
C) Company loyalty is more prized than ever.
D) Followers now have the option of seeking personal power, just as leaders do.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which scholar used the concept of social character to look at leadership in terms of the psychology of followers?

A) Maccoby
B) Berne
C) Kroeger and Theusen
D) Jung

Question 5

Which of the following is not true, according to the psychodynamic approach?

A) Learned patterns of family dynamics influence leadership.
B) Insight into one's own personality is beneficial.
C) Leaders should undergo psychoanalysis.
D) It is a way to look at the relationship between leader and follower.

Question 6

According to Berne's theory, the leader who acts like a parent is likely to get which state in reaction?

A) Child
B) Parent
C) Adult
D) Nurturing parent

Question 7

Which scholar(s) developed a matrix showing how Jung's personality types relate to leadership strengths and weaknesses?

A) Berne
B) Kroeger and Theusen
C) Freud
D) Blake and Mouton

Question 8

Freud's personality types include all of the following except

A) Obsessive
B) Marketing
C) Narcissistic
D) Erotic

Question 9

Important concepts in transactional analysis include all of the following, except

A) Crossed transaction.
B) Corrective transactions.
C) Ego states.
D) Complementary interactions.

Question 10

Who created four dimensions (e.g., where a person derives her or his energy) that are important in assessing personality?

A) Freud
B) Berne
C) Jung
D) Maccoby

Question 11

According to Freud, which is/are the most productive personality type(s)?

A) Productive narcissist
B) Erotic
C) Narcissist, obsessive
D) Obsessive

Question 12

The psychodynamic approach is criticized for all of these reasons except

A) It is based on the psychology of the abnormal.
B) It focuses primarily on personalities of leaders and followers.
C) It does not lend itself to traditional training.
D) It is not universal in scope.

Question 13

Social character is a way of looking at leadership

A) That is focused on relational competence.
B) That grew out of the activism of the 1960s.
C) In terms of mentoring.
D) As being created within a social community.

Question 14

Key elements of a productive person when considering personality types include all of these except

A) Guided by reason
B) Active or proactive
C) Individualized or maternalistic
D) Understands his or her own situation

Question 15

The creator of transactional analysis is

A) Berne.
B) Maccoby.
C) Jung.
D) Fromm.

Question 16

Which of the following is not considered a "leadership plus" of a feeler.

A) Loyal
B) Changeable
C) Empathetic
D) Cooperative

Question 17

The word that best describes a leadership plus of a sensor is

A) Practical.
B) Reflective.
C) Curious.
D) Open.

Question 18

A person who responds with feelings or behaviors in direct response to what is going on around them is in which ego state?

A) Child
B) Critical parent
C) Adapted child
D) Adult

Question 19

According to transactional analysis, the free child

A) Conforms to the needs of others.
B) Exhibits behaviors learned from parents.
C) Feels uninhibited and unsocialized.
D) Engages in reality testing.

Question 20

All of the following are strengths of the narcissist except

A) Perseverance.
B) Passion.
C) Sense of humor.
D) Good listener.

Question 21

A strength of the psychodynamic approach is that it discourages manipulative techniques in leadership.

Question 22

The adapted child is a person who acts and feels like an uninhibited and unsocialized child.

Question 23

The psychodynamic approach has its roots in the work of Freud and Jung.

Question 24

According to Eric Berne, how many ego states are there?

A) 4
B) 9
C) 6
D) 3

Question 25

Childhood and adolescent experiences are reflected in paternalistic patterns of leadership and management.

Question 26

Psychodynamic theory focuses heavily on the personal awareness of the leader.

Question 27

Transactional analysis focuses only on the individual.

Question 28

The child ego state includes thinking, feeling, and behaving as one did as a child.

Question 29

A subordinate who acts in a dependent manner expects the leader to act from his or her child ego state.

Question 30

In the parent ego state thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are a result of current happenings.

Question 31

An underlying assumption of the psychodynamic approach is that a person's behavior results from the entire emotional residue of prior experience.

Question 32

The psychodynamic has roots in psychoanalysis, which was developed by

A) Berne.
B) McGrath.
C) Freud.
D) Maccoby.

Question 33

The marketing personality is characterized as conforming and aligns itself with the right people and situations.

Question 34

According to Berne, a leader who acts like an adult is likely to get which state in reaction:

A) Parent
B) Adaptive child
C) Adult
D) Free child

Question 35

A psychodynamic model that is said to be "a unified system of individual and social psychiatry" by its developer is called

A) Psychoanalysis.
B) Transactional analysis.
C) Personality assessment.
D) Transformational analysis.

Question 36

According to the psychodynamic approach, it is quite important for leaders to understand personality types.

Question 37

The interactive social character emphasizes stability, organizational loyalty, and autonomy.

Question 38

According to the text, which of the following is not a dimension used when assessing personality?

A) Extraversion vs. introversion
B) Thinking vs. feeling
C) Sensing vs. intuiting
D) Judging vs. openness

Question 39

Compare the two types of social character on their views of leadership practice and the role of followers.

Question 40

A parent-child comment by the leader is likely to cause a parent-to-parent comment from the subordinate.

Question 41

Give an example of a crossed transaction in a leader-follower relationship. How should the leader respond to the ego state of the follower? How does a transactional approach support Northouse's definition of leadership?

Question 42

Is it possible for a narcissistic leader to acquire emotional intelligence?

Question 43

Give an example of a productive erotic type of leader and an unproductive erotic type of leader, using Fromm's five key elements of productivity.