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correct answer✔✔Any random rich son of a prominent father wouldn't necessarily be
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suited to the demands of the increasingly technical and complex demands of military
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leadership. Officers were not born; rather, they were educated and trained for the profession
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of arms.
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Discuss how the concept of how a meritocracy guides militaries in the selection of officers. -
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correct answer✔✔The only title to an officer's commission shall be, in time of peace,
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education and professional knowledge; in time of war, distinguished valor and perception.
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Defend the requirement for officers to swear an oath of office. - correct
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answer✔✔Responsibility should always accompany authority, so the oath (a profession of ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
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Compare and contrast direct leadership with indirect leadership. - correct answer✔✔As an
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indirect leader, you will now lead in concert with and through other leaders.
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Describe the four forms of indirect leadership. - correct answer✔✔Leadership from a
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Distance, Leadership through a Link, Leadership through Creations, and Upward
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Influence.
Explain what the term "link" means in the context of indirect leadership. - correct
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answer✔✔A "link" is the series of other leaders your message is transmitted through. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
,Defend the principle that upward influence can be a positive form of indirect leadership. -
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correct answer✔✔Upward influence allows subordinates to aid the team by guiding their
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Explain why organizations and leaders are expected to honor a public trust. - correct
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answer✔✔leaders who find themselves in powerful positions have an obligation to the ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
public. The public, the news media, watchdog groups, and the courts take an interest in the
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actions of organizations and the leaders who head them.
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Describe sample issues relating to corporate social responsibility. - correct
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answer✔✔Corruption, Stewardship, Philanthropy, Sustainability, Human Rights, and ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Transparency.
Describe why professionals often join professional associations. - correct
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answer✔✔Professionals join professional associations in order to honor their public trust. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Explain why most professional associations adopt a code of ethics. - correct answer✔✔A
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code of ethics sets an ethical standard for the professionals in the association.
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Define the term "dissent." - correct answer✔✔Dissent is the expression of opinions contrary
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to the official view, and a means for a leader to call attention to obligations that are higher
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than the duty to follow orders.
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Explain why dissent is important for the team's success. - correct answer✔✔Dissent allows
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team members to provide information contrary to the leaders information that could
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potentially save the team. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Defend the claim that dissent should be valued within the military. - correct
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answer✔✔Dissent in the military should be valued because it helps to prevent unethical ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
practices.
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command. Stay professional and in control of your emotions. Recommend solutions; don't ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
just complain about problems. Pick your battles, recognizing the difference between matters
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of style and matters of principle. And do not claim the right to criticize an idea unless you
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can summarize that idea in such a way that someone espousing the opposing view would
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Identify principles for encouraging and receiving dissenting views from subordinates. -
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correct answer✔✔Be mindful of your stress reactions and defensive behaviors. Don't take it
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personally if someone challenges your views. Assume good faith. Grant that the dissenter is ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
trying to help the team, not make trouble. Thank people for being brave enough to speak
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up. Give credit where credit is due.
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Defend the claim that leaders must be skilled in moral reasoning. - correct
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answer✔✔Because officers play a special role in resolving problems that have ethical ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
dimensions, they need to develop their capabilities in moral reasoning. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Summarize the case for moral relativism. - correct answer✔✔Moral relativism denies that ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
there are certain kinds of universal truths.
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Summarize the case for moral objectivism. - correct answer✔✔Objectivism is the belief that ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
despite cultures disagreeing about ethics across human history, some moral principles have
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universal validity.
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Summarize basic principles of virtue ethics. - correct answer✔✔Everything that is ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
conscious is goal-directed and working toward some kind of transformation. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Summarize basic principles of duty ethics. - correct answer✔✔Act only on that maxim ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
which you can at the same time will as a universal law. ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||