Chapter 4 Flashcards by VIDAL DIAZ

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

Moral

Human

Core

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

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

The ability to lead others

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Our character itself is not ______.

Learned

Developed

Predetermined

Predestined

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What does our ethical conduct generally reveal and often reinforce?

Our character

Our integrity

Our values

Our moral duties

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

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

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

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

Ethical principles

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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

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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

How to cultivate a work environment of ethical behavior

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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

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

Meaningless

Tiresome

Unimportant

Waste of energy

Unimportant

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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

Compliance-based programs

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What are compliance-based programs based on?

Rules and regulations

Law and order

Ethics and morals

Goals and objectives

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

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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

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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.

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

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What approach relies on identifying ethical principles?

Compliance-based approach

Value-oriented approach

Community oriented approach

Problem oriented approach

Compliance-based approach

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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

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

Respect, fairness, and caring

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Which pillar is an especially important ethic of value?

Honesty

Trustworthiness

Respect

None of the above

Trustworthiness

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Which pillars are fundamental ethical values?

Honesty and integrity

Respect and fairness

Caring and responsibility

Honesty, integrity, and respect

Respect and fairness

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

Respect

Fairness

Responsibility

Honesty

Responsibility

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Which value is one of the most elusive ethical values? Respect Fairness Responsibility Honesty

Fairness

Which ethical value embodies the values of justice, equity, due process, openness, and consistency? Respect Fairness Responsibility Honesty

Fairness

What is the core of many ethical values? Respect Caring Pursuit of excellence Concern for the interests of others

Concern for the interests of others

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The combination of individual integrity and organizational integrity

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

What is rewarded, sanctioned, or allowed

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

Avoid deceptive conduct

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

Virtuous values and integrity

An agency that wants to strengthen its ethical culture hires for ____ and trains for ____. Honesty / talent Character / skills Character / talent Honesty / skills

Character / skills

What stage are employees weeded out for lack of moral commitment? Performance reviews Hiring Application Background checks

Background checks

When do agencies assess ethical conduct? Performance reviews Hiring Application Background checks

Performance reviews

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

Basic laws of supervision

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

Strength-based leader

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

Unethical

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

Ethically aware people

What kind of employee tries to keep their bad notions within due bonds? Virtuous employees Ethically aware Unethical people Trustworthy people

Virtuous employees

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

Integrity

What kind of decisions require a lot of courage? Ethical decisions Moral decisions Discipline decisions No decision

Ethical decisions

What gives ethics zest? Morals Ethics Courage Bravery

Courage

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

Ethics become negotiable

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

Judges some behaviors as better than others

What are the two forms of grit most often thought of? Ethics and morals Ethics and integrity Integrity and bravery Bravery and physical courage

Bravery and physical courage

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

Moral

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

Possessions other answers : comfort, relationships, and careers

Which grit is rare? Courage Moral Bravery Physical

Physical

Which grit is tested almost every day? Courage Moral Bravery Physical

Moral

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

Integrity

What sort of bravery is the best indicator of where your heart lies? Virtue Ethics Integrity Physical courage

Virtue

A public office is at once also a public ______. Choice Trust Position Officer

Trust

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

Laws and rules

What are needed to define minimum standards of conduct? Laws Rules Order Ethics

Laws

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

Legal and unethical behavior has clearly become integrated into our thinking

Knowingly making unreasonable demands is an example of _______. Ethics Mistake of the mind Lack of inner strength Legal and unethical behavior

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 ```

The behaviors of personal responsibility, honesty, and fairness are all examples of ____. Legal and ethical behavior Positive inner strength Morally correct behavior Ethical values

Morally correct behavior

What are far too narrow or minimal to act as a substitute for ethics? Rules Laws Regulations Values

Laws

We expect _____ from laws and demand _____ from people. Everything / nothing Nothing / everything Too much / too little Too little / too much

Too much / too little

What choices typically involve tangible laws and rules? Clear, immoral Clear, ethical Clear, unethical Clear, moral

Clear, ethical

Which is an example of moral issues and ethical nuances which are confusing choices? Use of excessive force Bribe-taking Untruthfulness Embellishing claims

Use of excessive force

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

Capacity to evaluate complex or confusing facts

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

Surrender their standards

How will police supervisors be judged? On their ethics On their morals On their most recent best decision On their last, worst decision

On their last, worst decision

Ethical decision making is a skill that ______. Can be taught Can be learned You are born with None of the above

Can be learned

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

Know what ethics are

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

Want to do the right thing

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

Better and more frequent training

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

Integrity

Being a person of ______ is not easy. Integrity Self discipline Leadership Character

Character