Chapter 4 Flashcards

1
Q

One’s integrity depends on a moral compass that consists of what kind of values?

Moral

Human

Core

Ethical

A

Ethical

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What is the only option a strength base leader has?

The ability to lead others

To be centered and moving forward on this path

To follow their moral compass

Serve as an examples of integrity of character

A

To be centered and moving forward on this path

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What is lost without integrity?

The path of your moral compass

Your ethical values

The ability to lead others

Being a leader

A

The ability to lead others

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4
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Our character itself is not ______.

Learned

Developed

Predetermined

Predestined

A

Predestined

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What does our ethical conduct generally reveal and often reinforce?

Our character

Our integrity

Our values

Our moral duties

A

Our character

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What are concerned with moral duties and how we should behave regarding both ends and means?

Ethics

Ethical values

Moral

Moral values

A

Ethics

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Which of the following are ethical values?

Honor, duty, and integrity

Thoughtfulness, honor, and character

Fidelity, character, and law-abidingness

Forgiveness, accountability, and compassion

A

Forgiveness, accountability, and compassion

Here are some additional ethical values:
Honesty
Fidelity
Duty
Respect for others
Thoughtfulness
Honor
Law-abidingness
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What must ethical values include?

Action and purpose

Morals

Honesty and integrity

Meaning and purpose

A

Action and purpose

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In police work, _______ like trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship are simply factors to be taken into account.

Ethical principles

Ethical values

Good character

Ethics

A

Ethical principles

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10
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What is a prescription for the way things ought to be and not descriptions of the way things are?

Ethical principles

Ethical values

Good character

Ethics

A

Ethics

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11
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What do police leaders struggle with daily?

Having integrity

How to cultivate a work environment of ethical behavior

Trying to compartmentalize their lives into personal and police domains

If a personal obligation is an ethical one

A

How to cultivate a work environment of ethical behavior

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12
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Which ones are approaches to dealing with ethical challenges?

Community-oriented policing and value-oriented policing

Compliance-based programs and community-oriented programs

Value-oriented programs and compliance-based programs

Value-oriented policing and community-oriented programs

A

Value-oriented programs and compliance-based programs

“There are three very different approaches to dealing with ethical challenges:
Neglect
Compliance-based programs
Values-oriented programs”

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13
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When the department sidesteps ethics, how do they view ethics?

Meaningless

Tiresome

Unimportant

Waste of energy

A

Unimportant

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14
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What is most often designed by policy makers, administrative staff, and legal counsel?

Community-oriented policing

Value-oriented policing

Compliance-based programs

Value-based programs

A

Compliance-based programs

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15
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What are compliance-based programs based on?

Rules and regulations

Law and order

Ethics and morals

Goals and objectives

A

Rules and regulations

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What are the goals of compliance-based programs?

Preventing, acknowledging, and punishing legal violations

Detecting, recognizing, and punishing legal violations

Preventing, detecting, and enforcing legal violations

Preventing, detecting, and punishing legal violations

A

Preventing, detecting, and punishing legal violations

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17
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Why doesn’t the compliance-based program work well?

Rules beget rules; regulations beget regulations

They send a disturbing message to the employees: “We don’t respect your intelligence or trust you!”

It has not kept police supervisor or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.

All the above

A

All the above

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18
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What is one of the most compelling reasons for downplaying compliance-based programs?

Rules beget rules; regulations beget regulations

They send a disturbing message to the employees: “We don’t respect your intelligence or trust you!”

It has not kept police supervisors or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.

It does not balance the ethical concerns of the community with the values of the police organization.

A

It has not kept police supervisors or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.

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19
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What approach relies on identifying ethical principles?

Compliance-based approach

Value-oriented approach

Community oriented approach

Problem oriented approach

A

Compliance-based approach

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20
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The Joseph Institute of Ethics advocates six pillars of character. What do they define?

Morals and ethics

Morals and values

Moral duties and virtues

Values and ethics

A

Moral duties and virtues

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Which of the following are part of the six pillars of character?

Respect, fairness, and caring

Moral, ethics, and values

Honesty, integrity, and respect

All of the above

A

Respect, fairness, and caring

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22
Q

Which pillar is an especially important ethic of value?

Honesty

Trustworthiness

Respect

None of the above

A

Trustworthiness

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23
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Which pillars are fundamental ethical values?

Honesty and integrity

Respect and fairness

Caring and responsibility

Honesty, integrity, and respect

A

Respect and fairness

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24
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Which ethical concept embodies three separate values: accountability, self-restraint, and pursuit of excellence?

Respect

Fairness

Responsibility

Honesty

A

Responsibility

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25
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Which value is one of the most elusive ethical values?

Respect

Fairness

Responsibility

Honesty

A

Fairness

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26
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Which ethical value embodies the values of justice, equity, due process, openness, and consistency?

Respect

Fairness

Responsibility

Honesty

A

Fairness

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27
Q

What is the core of many ethical values?

Respect

Caring

Pursuit of excellence

Concern for the interests of others

A

Concern for the interests of others

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28
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How do we first examine ethical issues?

We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision

By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.

We examine the complexity of issues that must be considered in each decision.

We define the role each person’s judgement plays in ethically carrying out his or her responsibilities.

A

By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.

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29
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What is the second step in examining ethical issues?

We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision

By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.

We examine the complexity of issues that must be considered in each decision.

We define the role each person’s judgement plays in ethically carrying out his or her responsibilities.

A

We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision

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30
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What strongly influences the decisions of employees?

The ethical concerns of the community with the values of the police organization

His or her obligations to contribute to the overall public good

The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.

A matter of personal character

A

The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.

31
Q

What spells out the department’s ethical culture?

His or her obligations to contribute to the overall public good

The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.

Moral duties and virtues of its employees

The combination of individual integrity and organizational integrity

A

The combination of individual integrity and organizational integrity

32
Q

What determines the nature of the results achieved?

What is rewarded, sanctioned, or allowed

What is tolerated or rewarded

What is sanctioned or tolerated

What is rewarded, sanctioned, or tolerated

A

What is rewarded, sanctioned, or allowed

33
Q

When a supervisor believes that integrity is truly valued and enforced by the department and that appropriate punishment can be expected if he is caught lying about the fact to enhance the department’s productivity statistics, what is the supervisor more likely to do?

Avoid deceptive conduct

Be honest and fair

Promote honesty and integrity

Reward those who are honesty

A

Avoid deceptive conduct

34
Q

What plays a prominent role in recruitment, employment, orientation, in-service training, performance reviews, and discipline?

Ethical values and integrity

Honesty and integrity

Virtuous values and integrity

Trustworthiness and integrity

A

Virtuous values and integrity

35
Q

An agency that wants to strengthen its ethical culture hires for ____ and trains for ____.

Honesty / talent

Character / skills

Character / talent

Honesty / skills

A

Character / skills

36
Q

What stage are employees weeded out for lack of moral commitment?

Performance reviews

Hiring

Application

Background checks

A

Background checks

37
Q

When do agencies assess ethical conduct?

Performance reviews

Hiring

Application

Background checks

A

Performance reviews

38
Q

Whatever you allow you encourage and whatever employees will do for you, they will do to you are known as

Tolerance

Code of conduct

Basic laws of supervision

Ethical values

A

Basic laws of supervision

39
Q

Who you are or want to be as a person translates into who you are or want to be as a

Supervisor

Team leader

Employee

Strength-based leader

A

Strength-based leader

40
Q

What kind of people rarely feel guilty because they deny, they justify, they rationalize, and they refuse to accept their share of responsibility?

Lack accountability

Morally challenged

Unethical

Unfair

A

Unethical

41
Q

Who struggles with the distance between what they care about and what they’re doing about it?

Unethical people

People with high morals

People with good ethics

Ethically aware people

A

Ethically aware people

42
Q

What kind of employee tries to keep their bad notions within due bonds?

Virtuous employees

Ethically aware

Unethical people

Trustworthy people

A

Virtuous employees

43
Q

The true measure of a person’s _____ is what that person would do if he or she were sure nobody would ever ever know about it.

Virtues

Integrity

Ethics

Morals

A

Integrity

44
Q

What kind of decisions require a lot of courage?

Ethical decisions

Moral decisions

Discipline decisions

No decision

A

Ethical decisions

45
Q

What gives ethics zest?

Morals

Ethics

Courage

Bravery

A

Courage

46
Q

Many of us are quick to side with integrity until a dilemma hits them. Then what happens?

Ethics become negotiable

Integrity becomes negotiable

Morals become negotiable

The decisions is based on courage

A

Ethics become negotiable

47
Q

What does an ethical code do?

Allows the supervisor to make good quality decisions

Judges some behaviors as better than others

Gives us courage

Establishes a baseline

A

Judges some behaviors as better than others

48
Q

What are the two forms of grit most often thought of?

Ethics and morals

Ethics and integrity

Integrity and bravery

Bravery and physical courage

A

Bravery and physical courage

49
Q

Which form of grit did C. S. Lewis refer to when he said, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

Moral

Ethics

Integrity

Bravery

A

Moral

50
Q

Which one of the following does our integrity require us to put at risk at the testing point?

Compassion

Empathy

Possessions

Ethics

A

Possessions

other answers : comfort, relationships, and careers

51
Q

Which grit is rare?

Courage

Moral

Bravery

Physical

A

Physical

52
Q

Which grit is tested almost every day?

Courage

Moral

Bravery

Physical

A

Moral

53
Q

What is the inner strength to do what’s right even when it costs more than what we want to pay?

Ethical values

Moral

Courage

Integrity

A

Integrity

54
Q

What sort of bravery is the best indicator of where your heart lies?

Virtue

Ethics

Integrity

Physical courage

A

Virtue

55
Q

A public office is at once also a public ______.

Choice

Trust

Position

Officer

A

Trust

56
Q

What are especially useful when we are faced with choices about brutality, stealing, perjury, and bribe-taking?

Law and order

Rules and regulations

Ethics and morals

Laws and rules

A

Laws and rules

57
Q

What are needed to define minimum standards of conduct?

Laws

Rules

Order

Ethics

A

Laws

58
Q

What is one reason ethics are much easier said than done?

Ethics and morals are grits you are born with and can not learn them

It comes from your inner strength

Legal and unethical behavior has clearly become integrated into our thinking

Ethics encourages us to accept only existing laws as ethics

A

Legal and unethical behavior has clearly become integrated into our thinking

59
Q

Knowingly making unreasonable demands is an example of _______.

Ethics

Mistake of the mind

Lack of inner strength

Legal and unethical behavior

A

Legal and unethical behavior

Here are more common examples:
Embellishing claims
Scapegoating personal failures
Shirking distasteful responsibilities
Stonewalling questions
Acting insincerely
Reneging on promises
Covering up
Making consequential decisions unilaterally
Malingering
Lying
60
Q

The behaviors of personal responsibility, honesty, and fairness are all examples of ____.

Legal and ethical behavior

Positive inner strength

Morally correct behavior

Ethical values

A

Morally correct behavior

61
Q

What are far too narrow or minimal to act as a substitute for ethics?

Rules

Laws

Regulations

Values

A

Laws

62
Q

We expect _____ from laws and demand _____ from people.

Everything / nothing

Nothing / everything

Too much / too little

Too little / too much

A

Too much / too little

63
Q

What choices typically involve tangible laws and rules?

Clear, immoral

Clear, ethical

Clear, unethical

Clear, moral

A

Clear, ethical

64
Q

Which is an example of moral issues and ethical nuances which are confusing choices?

Use of excessive force

Bribe-taking

Untruthfulness

Embellishing claims

A

Use of excessive force

65
Q

Which of the following are requirements of ethical decision making?

Determination

Capacity to evaluate complex or confusing facts

Self control

Changing the way things are to the way they ought to be

A

Capacity to evaluate complex or confusing facts

66
Q

When there is a gap between reality and ethical standards, what do strength based leaders not do?

Adjust their ethics

Alter their code of conduct

Work to change the way things are to the way they ought to be

Surrender their standards

A

Surrender their standards

67
Q

How will police supervisors be judged?

On their ethics

On their morals

On their most recent best decision

On their last, worst decision

A

On their last, worst decision

68
Q

Ethical decision making is a skill that ______.

Can be taught

Can be learned

You are born with

None of the above

A

Can be learned

69
Q

What is the first step in ethical decision making?

Know what ethics are

Determine if the decision is yours to make

Make a plan

Put down self-deception and rationalize

A

Know what ethics are

70
Q

What desire is so compelling to most police personnel?

Train
Follow direction and guidance

Work to change the way things are to the way they ought to be

Want to do the right thing

A

Want to do the right thing

71
Q

What increases the likelihood that police personnel will act more ethically more often?

Having good ethical values

Having courage

Better and more frequent training

Being a good strength based leader

A

Better and more frequent training

72
Q

What describes the character of a person who has united the various facets of his or her personality so that there is no longer any quarrelling within about what is right?

Integrity

Self discipline

Strength based leader

Ethics

A

Integrity

73
Q

Being a person of ______ is not easy.

Integrity

Self discipline

Leadership

Character

A

Character