MGMT 300 Exam 4 Questions
and Answers
Reasons people follow leaders - Answer-1. Our need for reassuring authority figures
2. Our need for security and certainty
3. Our need to feel chosen or special
4. Our need for membership in the human community
5. Our fear of ostracism, isolation, and social death
6. Our fear of powerlessness to challenge a bad leader
Destructive Leaders - Answer-charisma, personalized power, narcissism, negative life
themes, ideology of hate
Susceptible Followers:
Conformers - Answer-unmet needs, low core self-evaluations, low maturity
Susceptible Followers:
Colluders - Answer-ambition, similar world view, bad values
Conducive Environments - Answer-instability, perceived threat, cultural values, lack of
checks and balances and ineffective institutions
Ethics - Answer-Values and morals an individual or society ascribes as desirable or
appropriate
Influence - Answer-Impacts the lives of followers
Power and control - Answer-creates enormous ethical responsibility for leaders
Establish and reinforce organizational values - Answer-creates and supports culture in
which values are manifested in behaviors
Ethical leadership - Answer-Influence of a moral person and whether/how they behave
as a moral manager
Character of the leader - Answer-- Fundamental aspect.
- Qualities, disposition, and core values.
- Six dimensions of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring,
and citizenship
and Answers
Reasons people follow leaders - Answer-1. Our need for reassuring authority figures
2. Our need for security and certainty
3. Our need to feel chosen or special
4. Our need for membership in the human community
5. Our fear of ostracism, isolation, and social death
6. Our fear of powerlessness to challenge a bad leader
Destructive Leaders - Answer-charisma, personalized power, narcissism, negative life
themes, ideology of hate
Susceptible Followers:
Conformers - Answer-unmet needs, low core self-evaluations, low maturity
Susceptible Followers:
Colluders - Answer-ambition, similar world view, bad values
Conducive Environments - Answer-instability, perceived threat, cultural values, lack of
checks and balances and ineffective institutions
Ethics - Answer-Values and morals an individual or society ascribes as desirable or
appropriate
Influence - Answer-Impacts the lives of followers
Power and control - Answer-creates enormous ethical responsibility for leaders
Establish and reinforce organizational values - Answer-creates and supports culture in
which values are manifested in behaviors
Ethical leadership - Answer-Influence of a moral person and whether/how they behave
as a moral manager
Character of the leader - Answer-- Fundamental aspect.
- Qualities, disposition, and core values.
- Six dimensions of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring,
and citizenship
