Three key interdependent strategic leadership activities are: designing the organization, determining its direction, and nurturing a culture dedicated to excellence and ethical behavior.
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Setting a direction is the leadership activity that involves developing a strategic vision of what the organization could become.
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The tendency of many individuals to invest further in decisions providing positive performance feedback is referred to as escalation.
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Behavioral barriers to change occur because of conflicts between departments, conflicts arising from power relationships, and refusal to share information.
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Leaders must draw on a range of personal skills as well as organizational mechanisms to move their organizations forward in the face of barriers to change.
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People with strong self-awareness are overly critical and unrealistically optimistic and are well suited to run organizations because they will make good judgment calls.
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A key function of the leaders in a learning organization is to generate an organization-wide commitment to the status quo.
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Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose is a necessary and sufficient condition for developing a learning organization.
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Internal benchmarking is discouraged in most organizations because it creates competition and internal rivalries that are counterproductive.
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Leaders who fail to institute proper systems and controls that facilitate ethical conduct share responsibility with those who conceive, execute, and knowingly benefit from corporate misdeeds.
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Ethical crises are bad for organization reputation, but they rarely have any financial consequences.
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Research supports that there are many potential benefits of an ethical organization, including that there is a strong and consistent relationship between ethical performance and measures of financial performance.
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A compliance-based approach to ethics management combines a concern for law with an emphasis on managerial responsibility for ethical behavior.
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There can be a high-integrity organization without high-integrity individuals.
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In integrity-based ethics programs, organizational ethics is seen as the responsibility of the employees.
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If leaders do not believe in the ethical standards that they are trying to inspire, they will not be effective as good role models.
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Codes of conduct help employees from diverse backgrounds to work more effectively across cultural backgrounds.
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Inappropriate reward systems may cause individuals to commit unethical acts.
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Question 19
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Which of the following is an important characteristic of a leader?
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strives to maintain the status quo
goal-oriented
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Which of the following statements about leadership is false?
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Leadership is focused on the creation and implementation of a creative vision.
Leadership is the process of transforming organizations from what they are to what the leader would have them become.
Leaders work to build a status quo and seek control mechanisms to maintain it.
Effective implementation of strategy is essential for successful leadership.