Chapter 9,10,16: Ethics and Leadership Identity

What factor in authentic leadership often enables leaders to transcend individual differences?

moral reasoning

Research on ethics and the millennial generation underscores the notion that ______.

ethical perspectives can change over time and research needs to keep up

Individuals who find servant leadership a form of micromanagement ______.

lack follower receptivity, which is an antecedent condition of servant leadership

Servant leadership works best when leaders have a strong sense of self−awareness and can take care of their own needs before helping others.

False

The Heifetz perspective on ethical leadership suggests that it is up to the leader to provide a trusting, empathic “holding environment” for followers to feel safe while confronting difficult problems. This concept is also part of the ______ leadership theory.

adaptive

Burns’s ethical approach emphasizes how leaders help followers ______.

adopt higher standards of moral responsibility

A preexisting factor that influences servant leadership processes is considered a(n) ______.

antecedent condition of servant leadership

Virtue−based theories of ethics focus on the conduct of leaders rather than who they are as people.

False

A strength of the leadership ethics approach is that when employees perceive that their leaders are ethical role models, they are ______.

more cooperative and less devious

Which ethical leadership principle resembles the main focus of the servant leadership approach?

Ethical leaders serve others.