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Hughes: Leadership, 4e
Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, 4/e
Richard L Hughes, Center for Creative Leadership
Robert C Ginnett, Center for Creative Leadership
Gordon J Curphy, The Blandin Foundation
Leadership and Values

Chapter Quiz



1

Leaders should internalize a strong set of ethics.
A)True
B)False
2

One behavior not common to many good leaders is that they tend to align the values of their followers with those of the organization or movement.
A)True
B)False
3

Values play a key role in the moral reasoning process.
A)True
B)False
4

Moral judgement is part of each person's general personal and social development.
A)True
B)False
5

Values do not affect leader's perceptions of situations and the problems at hand.
A)True
B)False
6

One's ability to reason about hypothetical moral issues after all, does assume that one will act morally.
A)True
B)False
7

Gaining entry to and inventing in a career are the first steps in the leadership development process.
A)True
B)False
8

A rather common problem for office managers is the United States is controlling the use of the office copier.
A)True
B)False
9

________ refers to the process leaders use to make decisions about ethical and unethical behaviors.
A)Moral judgements
B)Moral standings
C)Moral reasoning
D)Moral behavior
E)Moral issues
10

________ is a person's criteria for moral behavior based primarily on self interest.
A)Post conventional level
B)Pre-conventional level
C)Conventional level
D)After conventional level
E)None of the above
11

More and more organizations are developing ________ of corporate values.
A)internal statements
B)influential statements
C)formal statements
D)ethical statements
E)perception statements
12

An important new line of research deals with efforts to develop a scale for assessing a leader's___________.
A)insight
B)practice
C)integrity
D)behavior
E)style
13

Something can be ________ even though it is legal.
A)ethical
B)unethical
C)judgmental
D)evil
E)dishonest
14

________ involves reinterpreting otherwise immoral behavior in terms of higher purpose.
A)Disregard of distortion
B)Advantageous comparison
C)Euphemistic labeling
D)Moral justification
E)Darley's law
15

________ is another way of avoiding the moral consequences of one's behavior.
A)Diffusion
B)Distortion
C)Attribution
D)Dehumanization
E)Displacement
16

One of the most important factors which seems to impede the advance of women and other minorities into leadership roles is .
A)fair
B)unfair
C)legal
D)bias
E)changing
17

The concept of a narrow band of acceptable behavior is not limited to __________.
A)men
B)managers
C)leaders
D)woman
E)followers
18

Culture refers to
A)those unlearned behaviors characterizing the total way of life of members within any given society.
B)those taught behaviors characterizing the total way of life of members within any given society.
C)those learned behaviors characterizing the total way of life of members within any given society.
D)those learned behaviors characterizing the total way of life of members within a chosen society.
E)none of the above.
19

It can be helpful to see one's own ________ through the eyes of another.
A)system
B)habits
C)culture
D)leadership
E)all of the above
20

Another potential conflict or misunderstanding can be seen in the case of orientation to ________ .
A)leadership
B)authority
C)responsibility
D)attributes
E)harmony




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