Unit 1 Quizzes – Flashcards
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What are the four qualities of leadership that engender trust according to Bennis and Goldsmith?
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Vision, empathy, consistency, and integrity
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Leaders who pull people together on the basis of shared beliefs and a common sense of organizational purpose and belonging
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have a compelling vision.
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Leaders who demonstrate empathy with us
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show they understand the world as we see and experience it.
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Managers with a ____________ orientation rely heavily on coercive, and external-control methods to motivate workers such as punishments and threats.
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Theory X
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Theory Y reflects a view that most people
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are intrinsically motivated by their work.
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Constructs representing generalized behaviors or states of affairs that are considered by the individual to be important are
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values.
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Some individuals believe that family security is an important goal to strive for. In terms of instrumental values, such individuals may think that it is important to always act in a
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honest manner.
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In terms of instrumental values, individuals who value equality and freedom may think that it is important to always be
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imaginative.
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Members of the Veteran generation
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have been a stabilizing force in organizations for decades.
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have been a stabilizing force in organizations for decades.
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have been a stabilizing force in organizations for decades.
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As a group, this generation of workers tends to be technologically savvy, independent and skeptical of institutions and hierarchy.
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The Gen Xers
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The generation of workers born after 1980 are called the
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Nexters.
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Gen Xers define leadership as
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giving employees what they need to work well and comfortably
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Individuals who have an implicit prejudice tend to:
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be unaware of its existence.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the four biases identified in research that can have a pervasive and corrosive effect on our moral decision making?
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Discrimination
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_____ involves reinterpreting otherwise immoral behavior in terms of a higher purpose
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Moral justification
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End-based thinking can be characterized as
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"Doing what's best for the greatest number of people."
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Terrorists may call themselves "freedom fighters," and firing someone may be referred to as "letting him go." This is an example of
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euphemistic labeling.
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What is attribution of blame?
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People sometimes try to justify immoral behavior by claiming it was caused by someone else's actions.
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People minimize the harm caused by their behavior through
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disregard of consequences.
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Moral reasoning refers to
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the process leaders use to make decisions about ethical and unethical behaviors.
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In the preconventional level of moral development, the criteria for moral behavior
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are based primarily on self-interest.
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This way of minimizing individual moral responsibility for collective action can be one of the negative effects of group decision making.
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Diffusion of responsibility
