Exam 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits

Our ethical behavior is related to our individual needs and personality traits.

What does intelligence have to do with leadership?

People with Theory X attitudes hold that employees like to work and do not need to be closely supervised in order to do their work.

The adjustment personality dimension includes traits related to emotional stability.

Do you believe that if you use ethical behavior it will pay off in the long run?

What does intelligence have to do with leadership?

Would you predict that a person with a strong agreeableness personality dimension would be a successful computer programmer? Why or why not?

Leaders that are high in self-management are self-motivated, conscientious, adaptable, and optimistic.

The Leader Motive Profile (LMP) defines which motive as the highest need for leaders?

Leaders need a high n Pow to influence followers, peers, and higher level managers.

Research has confirmed that there is a limited number of confirmed and agreed up on traits this leaders have.

Discuss why the trait of dominance is so important for managers to have.

Effective leaders are high on all of the factors in the Big Five Model of Personality.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ensures that those who act unethically will be prosecuted.

Should a leader have a dominant need for achievement to be successful? Why or why not?

"I was only following orders; my boss told me to inflate the figures" is an example of displacement of responsibility.

Does McClelland believe that power is good or bad? Why?

At the conventional level of moral development, self-interest motivates behavior.

Compare the three levels of moral development.

Effective leaders use personalized power.