Identify the appropriate statement
regarding courage.
a. Courage is to ask what one wants
Leadership
Challenge#6
Connect
Which of the following scenarios is
an example of whistleblowing?
a. Gerard is a team leader at Torque
Corp. He doesn’t teach his team
members the work process and how
it works. He withholds help and
support to the junior members.
b. Martha, a junior associate, works
for Tryst Corp. She shifts the blame
to her higher officials for her poor
quality of work.
officials who indulged in a
fraudulent act.
about his unjust acts.
Leadership
Challenge#6
Lead
Tracy works as a manager at a
multinational corporation. She
avoids voicing her true opinions or
thoughts in order to please the higher
officials and avoid conflicts. In the
given scenario, Tracy’s behavior is
an example of _____.
a. the servant leadership approach
b. the Abilene Paradox
c. stewardship
d. whistleblowing
Leadership
Challenge#6
Lead
Which of the following is a way in
which leaders can unlock the
courage within themselves?
a. By refraining from committing to
a cause
b. By staying aloof from others
Leadership
Challenge#6
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How can leaders unlock the courage
within themselves?
a. By displaying anger and
frustration
Leadership
Challenge#6
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Media Quiz Questions
Topic
Category
Which of the following
statements is true of
leadership?
a. Rather than self-interest, the
most dangerous obstacle for
leaders is full-scale corruption.
b. Leaders face many
pressures that challenge their
Leadership Challenge #2
Comprehension
An ethical leader is one who:
a. excessively promotes self-
interest.
b. behaves unethically toward
competitors.
Leadership Challenge #2
Comprehension
In order to be an ethical
leader, one should:
a. show courage and stand up
for what is right.
b. be self-serving and take
responsibility.
Leadership Challenge #2
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Pre-Test Questions
Topic
Category
An unethical leader:
a. focuses on the long-term
interests of an organization.
b. pushes beyond his or her
comfort zone.
c. shifts blame to others.
d. fulfills commitments.
Leadership Challenge #1
Connect
Which of the following
challenges the ability of
leaders to do the right thing?
a. Pressure to believe in a
higher purpose
fairness
d. Pressure to cut costs
Leadership Challenge #2
Engage
Which of the following
qualities should an ethical
leader possess?
a. He or she should shift
blame to others while
promoting self-interest.
b. He or she should take
responsibility and carry out his
Leadership Challenge #2
Connect
Stefani is an employee at
EduKart Inc. She is self-
centered and follows the rules
in order to avoid punishment.
Which of the following is the
level of personal moral
development that Stefani has
reached?
a. Preconventional level
b. Conventional level
c. Postconventional level
d. Paraconventional level
Leadership Challenge #3
Perform
Identify the leader who is at
the conventional level of
personal moral development.
Leadership Challenge #3
Perform
a. Sandra is egocentric and
satisfies immediate self-
interests.
b. Harry is concerned with
receiving external rewards and
avoiding punishments.
Which of the following
statements differentiates the
conventional level from the
postconventional level of
personal moral development?
a. People at the conventional
level adhere to the norms of
the larger social system,
whereas people at the
postconventional level may
disobey rules or laws that
violate their own set of ethical
principles.
b. People at the conventional
level are egocentric and
concerned with receiving
external rewards, whereas
people at the postconventional
level prefer going along with
the broader societal system.
c. People at the conventional
level obey authority and
follow rules to avoid
detrimental personal
Leadership Challenge #3
Connect
others.
Identify the organization in
which leaders will face more
challenges to act ethically.
a. Economy Solutions Inc.
focuses on long-term interests
of the organization.
b. LinkNet Corp.
Leadership Challenge #4
Perform
When leaders forget that
business is about _____,
organizations and the broader
society are hurt in the process.
a. meeting vendor demands
b. ethics and values
c. cost cutting
d. economic performance
Leadership Challenge #4
Engage
Identify the correct statement
regarding servant leadership.
a. It focuses on obedient
subordinates.
b. It requires authoritarian
leaders.
c. It is leadership upside
down.
d. It emphasizes tight top-
down control.
Leadership Challenge #5
Connect
Which of the following
statements is true of traditional
organizations?
a. It was based on the idea that
the leader is in charge of
subordinates.
Leadership Challenge #5
Engage
were in the hands of
subordinates in these
organizations.
d. Leaders gave up control and
made a choice to serve
employees in such
organizations.
In _____, a stage of the
leadership continuum, leaders
are guardians and curators of
organizational resources and
values and they place the
long-term interests of the
organization first.
a. authoritarian management
b. participative management
c. servant leadership
d. stewardship
Leadership Challenge #5
Engage
Along the leadership
continuum, the focus of
leadership shifts from:
a. stewards to autocratic
leaders.
b. leader to followers.
c. team players to obedient
subordinates.
d. subordinates to managers.
Leadership Challenge #5
Engage
At Petro Industries Inc.,
employees are encouraged to
manage their work. As such,
almost every employee gets to
do some of the core work of
the organization. Which of the
following types of
management does Petro
Industries follow?
a. Autocratic management
Leadership Challenge #5
Perform
_____ means accepting
responsibility, pushing beyond
the comfort zone, asking for
what you want and saying
what you think, and fighting
for what you believe.
Leadership Challenge #6
Engage
a. Courage
Alex Tech Support Inc. is a
team-based organization. It is
observed that groups mostly
agree with decisions taken
even though individual
employees want to do what is
right. This situation at Alex
Tech Support is an example
of:
a. pluralist ignorance.
Leadership Challenge #6
Perform
Post-Test Questions
Topic
Category
An ethical leader:
a. serves others.
b. excessively promotes self-
interest.
c. shifts blames to others.
d. practices deception.
Leadership Challenge #1
Engage
Who among the following is
an example of a moral leader?
a. Mary emphasizes increasing
company profits along with
pleasing shareholders at all
costs.
b. Andrew promotes self-
interest while maintaining the
status quo.
c. John sets an ethical tone in
maintaining concern for
people.
d. Betty focuses on meeting
the demands of business
people.
Leadership Challenge #1
Perform
Who among the following is
an example of a leader who
gives in to pressures that
Leadership Challenge #2
Connect
challenge leaders about their
ability to do the right thing?
a. Brandon does everything he
can in order to look
successful.
b. Carlos focuses on what is
right for all the people of the
organization.
c. Hillary places the long-term
interests of the organization
first.
d. Jeffrey encourages and
develops others.
Identify the correct statement
regarding ethical leadership.
Identify the leader who is at
the preconventional level of
personal moral development.
a. Darla upholds laws and
lives up to the expectations of
others.
b. Carl is guided by an
internalized set of principles
universally recognized as just
and right.
Leadership Challenge #3
Perform
Jill is a nurse at St. Martha’s
Old Age Home. Contrary to
the doctor’s prescription, Jill
reduces the dosage of a
particular drug for one of its
residents when she notices that
the regular usage of the drug
causes severe anxiety in the
person. Which of the
following is the level of
personal moral development
that Jill has reached?
a. Preconventional level
Leadership Challenge #3
Perform
Which of the following is an
instance of putting an
organization’s reputation
ahead of morality?
a. Leaders emphasizing
striving for fairness over cost
cutting
b. Leaders focusing on
meeting economic goals over
doing the right thing
Leadership Challenge #4
Connect
Which of the following
statements is true of moral
leadership?
a. It does not require
acknowledging the importance
of human meaning.
b. It does not mean ignoring
profit and loss.
c. It does not require serving
others.
d. It does not mean striving for
fairness.
Leadership Challenge #4
Engage
Servant leadership involves:
a. passive subordinates.
b. ignoring profit and loss.
Leadership Challenge #5
Engage
c. turning followers into
leaders.
d. using a leadership position
to control or limit people.
Identify the correct statement
regarding traditional
organizations.
a. The leader was expected to
be passive.
b. The focus of leadership was
on followers.
c. They were based on the idea
that subordinates were in
charge of the leader.
organization depended on
leader control over followers.
Leadership Challenge #5
Connect
As _____, leaders empower
followers to make decisions
and have control over how
they do their own jobs.
a. servants
b. stewards
c. traditional managers
d. authoritarian managers
Leadership Challenge #5
Connect
Which of the following
statements is true of the
leadership continuum?
a. Servant leadership
represents a stage beyond
stewardship.
b. In the first stage,
subordinates are active.
c. In the fourth stage,
employees are expected to act
as team players.
d. The stewardship mindset
emphasizes tight top-down
control.
Leadership Challenge #5
Connect
Irrespective of the positions
they hold, the employees at
AcroSoft Inc. receive rewards
for their contributions. As
such, the wealth of AcroSoft is
redistributed by compensating
employees who make
Leadership Challenge #5
Perform
exceptional contributions to
the company. Given this
information, we can say that
ArcSoft encourages _____.
a. servant leadership
Identify the correct statement
regarding courage.
a. A world of stability and
abundance helps leaders
remember the meaning of
courage.
b. Courage and nonconformity
are unrelated.
Leadership Challenge #6
Connect
Which of the following
statements is directly related
to the Abilene Paradox?
a. Courage means accepting
responsibility.
b. Courage means breaking
traditions.
c. Courage means fighting for
valued outcomes that benefit
the whole.
d. Courage means speaking
your mind even when you
know others may disagree
with you.
Leadership Challenge #6
Connect
Self-Assessment Questions
Topic
Category
Which of the following is an
example of courageous
leaders?
a. They never tell people the
truth when it is negative.
b. They risk substantial
personal loss to achieve the
vision.
Leadership Challenge # 6
Connect
c. They say no if they have a
lot to lose.
d. They avoid difficult issues.
Courageous leaders:
a. do not take personal risks to
defend their beliefs.
b. are restless and fidgety most
d. do not stand up to rude
people.
Leadership Challenge # 6
Connect
Identify the correct statement
about courageous leaders.
a. They do not hesitate to act
against the opinions and
approval of others.
Leadership Challenge # 6
Connect
Which of the following is a
trait found in people with high
levels of anxiety and fear?
a. Their feelings are hurt more
easily than other people.
b. They are less self-conscious
than other people.
c. They rarely find themselves
worrying about something.
d. They do not compromise in
situations in order to avoid
conflict.
Leadership Challenge #6
Connect
Courageous people:
a. rarely oppose unethical
conduct.
Leadership Challenge #6
Connect
Which of the following is a
characteristic of courageous
people?
Leadership Challenge #6
Connect
a. When they make a decision,
they may second-guess it later.
b. They feel self-conscious
when a significant person
compliments them.
A person who is at the
postconventional level of
personal moral development
would:
a. neglect follower
development.
b. blame others.
c. be self-serving.
d. take personal responsibility.
Leadership Challenge #3
Engage
Leaders with high ethical
values:
a. are not able to forgive
themselves soon after a
serious mistake.
own mistakes and failures.
Leadership Challenge #1
Engage
Coworkers of an ethical leader
would say that:
a. he or she blames others
whenever things go wrong.
b. he or she is unable to
forgive herself shortly after a
serious mistake.
Leadership Challenge #2
Connect
An authoritarian leader would:
a. give away credit and
recognition to others.
Connect
A participative leader would:
a. try to learn the needs and
perspectives of others.
b. put people under pressure
Connect
Which of the following is a
trait of a leader who leads
more like a steward?
a. Their actions meet the
needs of others before their
own.
b. They encourage the growth
of employees, expecting
nothing in return.
c. They are assertive about the
right way to do things.
d. They consciously utilize the
skills and talents of others.
Connect
Which of the following is true
of servant leadership?
a. They are assertive about the
right way to do things.
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