Exam 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits

An employee regularly works in small groups with other employees. This employee is always willing to play a key role for the group to influence the members to do things his or her way. This behavior is characteristic of which personality trait?

Intelligence refers to:

State how the Achievement Motivation Theory and the Leader Motive Profile are related and different.

Which of the following is NOT a trait of high conscientiousness?

____ refers to understanding right from wrong and choosing to do the right thing.

The Dominance trait affects all other traits related to effective leaders.

What is the primary use of personality profiles?

Distortion of consequences is the process of using "cosmetic" words to make the behavior sound acceptable.

Make an intelligent guess about your present or past manager's motive profile. Is it an LMP? Explain.

____ is the belief in one's capability to perform in a specific situation.

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

Is locus of control important to leaders? Why?

People with strong n Pow tend to seek entrepreneurial type positions and are attuned to power and politics.

Does sensitivity to others mean that the leader does what the followers want to do?

Select a present or past manager, and describe his or her personality profile using each of the Big Five dimensions. After rating each dimension as strong, moderate, or weak, give an example of traits and typical behavior of the manager for each dimension. Which dimensions are strongest and weakest?

The process of blaming one's unethical behavior on others is known as:

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

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

Of the Big Five personality dimensions, the highest correlation with leadership is:

Emotional intelligence is a personality dimension related to surgency.