Exam 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits

Personality is developed solely based on genetics.

Do people change their level of moral development based on the situation?

"If you want something done right, do it yourself" is an example of ____ attitudes.

Ethical leadership requires the ability to do the right thing at the risk of rejection and loss.

The Pygmalion effect proposes that leaders' attitudes and expectations of followers, and their treatment of them, explain and predict followers' behavior and performance.

Self-confidence is best categorized as the ____ Big Five dimension.

Describe how attitudes are used to develop four leadership styles.

Recall a present or past manager. Using Exhibit 2.5, which combinations of attitudes best describe your manager's leadership style? Give examples of the manager's behavior that illustrates his or her attitudes.

What is the primary use of personality profiles?

Identify similarities and differences among Theory X and Theory Y, the Pygmalion effect, and self-concept.

The ability to do the right thing at the risk of rejection and loss is considered:

"If the manager is not around, employees will work just as hard" is an example of ____ attitudes.

An employee came to the manager and suggested a different way for the department to process the work. The manager has the employees using the new process to see if it works. This behavior is characteristic of which of the Big Five personality dimensions?

A manager from a prestigious university believed that employees who were from "lesser schools" lacked sufficient intelligence and motivation for the high-tech firm that she led. She set goals for these employees low, and did not trust them with certain important tasks or company information. The employees, in fact, tended to show dissatisfaction and low performance. At length, many of them quit. This would be an example of:

Describe how attitudes are used to develop four leadership styles.

Why do people justify their unethical behavior?

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

The majority of CEOs, but not all CEOs are extraverts.

Self-efficacy is the belief in your own capability to perform in a specific situation.

Which personality traits are more closely related to ethical and unethical behavior?