Readings

Question 1

based on the terzieva reading, what are 5 behaviours of ethical leaders

Answer 1

• fair to all
• open culture of trust and communication
• continuous improvement
• ownership of actions
• understand implications of decisions

Question 2

based on perilious at the top, what are features of leaders

Answer 2

• inspire ehthical decision making in subordinates
• more voulnerable to acting unethically
• have a skewed view in how ethical they actually are
• have entitlament bias

Question 3

tim cook says that ethics are built when

Answer 3

built when you grow up and based on who you associate with

Question 4

max bazerman looks at cognitive biases that

Answer 4

limit our ability to be ational especially when we increase our benefit and decrease others

Question 5

alex edmans reasearch shows that firms with more socially responsible decisons

Answer 5

outperform their competitors

Question 6

what are two outocmes of carly fiorina research

Answer 6

• managing for external affirmation cuases people to behave unethically
• lack of ethics confuses organizations, decreases perfromance and true purpose

Question 7

what are the three approaches described in the Rock article

Answer 7

• teaching awareness of ethics is not enoguh
• setting up universal values is challenging
• recognizing value and thinking critically about them in context

Question 8

Voss said lazy problem solving leads to

Answer 8

suboptimal solutions

Question 9

based on the Israel reading, how do oyu listen to someone you dont agree with (5)

Answer 9

• active listening
• non verbal attending
• reflecting
• open ended questions
• check your understadning

Question 10

huffington reading on how to give feedbakc (4)

Answer 10

• give compassionate and effective feedback
• constructive feedback should stand on its own
• reflect on feedback before giving it
• consider other’s [erspective

Question 11

based on schys and schillings, there is a correlation between dustructive leadership and (6)

Answer 11

• poor attitudes towards work
• counterproductive work behaviour
• resistance to leader
• turnorcer
• well being
• work perfromance

Question 12

based on Gallup businesses fail to make the right deciosn what % of the time and poor managers account for what %

Answer 12

• 82%
• 70%

Question 13

alex edmans says htat firms that demonstarate social responsibility

Answer 13

outperform competitors

Question 14

houseworth says that there is a gap between

Answer 14

being noticed for leadership and actually leading

Question 15

based on houseworth, leaders know how to inspire, guide and coach, if they do not, they

Answer 15

micromanage

Question 16

based on houseworth, good leaders do what

Answer 16

ask the right questions, assess with goal seeking and provide good feedback

Question 17

Rock introduced the SCARF model. where is threat rocessed and wht does teh concern for threat stand for

Answer 17

processed in amygdala
people are threatened they might lose
- Status
- Certainty
- Autonomy
- Relateness
- Fairness

Question 18

heath and heath relate elephant and rider to planner and doer in 3 points

Answer 18

• direct the rider
• motivate the elephant
• shape the path

Question 19

the sineka reading talks about what

Answer 19

• the environment shapes a person’s behaviour and character
• a positive feeling of reciprocity is created thinking “they would have done the same for me”
• circle of safety

Question 20

what is the power paradox from the keltner reading about

Answer 20

the idea that when people begin to feel powerful, wealthy and have credentials, qualities like empathy, collaboration, openess, fairness and sharing begin, yielding to traffic, go away
think of cookie monster experiment