Deck 2: The Importance of Ethical Leadership

Question 1

Because they exercise an enormous amount of discretion, front-line police officers are in a position to reject a leadership role.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Ethical leadership skills and concepts:

A) encompass a wide variety of behaviors that allow the leader to employ numerous approaches to accomplishing goals.
B) do not demand consideration of values and ethics because of the officer's power and authority.
C) fail to provide standards by which a police officer's actions can be evaluated.
D) should not be used to direct the exercise of discretion.
E) all of the above.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The CEO of a police agency has the most direct role in serving the mission of the police agency.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Police agency _____ are in the best position to directly impact the lives of the people who are served by the agency.

A) CEOs
B) middle managers
C) line supervisors
D) line officers
E) all of the above

Question 5

Ethical leadership skills:

A) help police officers conceptualize and articulate their activities.
B) assists police officers with defining their role.
C) enhance a police officer's sense of confidence.
D) highlight the importance of what police officers do.
E) all of the above.

Question 6

Police officers as ethical leaders are:

A) committed to the law and professional standards of behavior.
B) responsive and insensitive to changing circumstances.
C) not responsible for correcting another's unethical behavior.
D) in a position to encourage conflicts of interest to resolve problems.
E) all of the above.

Question 7

As public officers, the police are supposed to be:

A) authoritarian.
B) service-oriented.
B) subjectively-centered.
C) autocratic.
E) all of the above.

Question 8

Value-led ethical leadership by all police officers maximizes effort by integrating community values into an agency's:

A) vision.
B) mission.
C) strategy.
D) operating plans and services.
E) all of the above.

Question 9

The front-line police officer (the officer on the street) is the person responsible for implementing police strategy.

Question 10

Ethical leadership:

A) involves values.
B) has a moral dimension.
C) requires judgments about human behavior.
D) involves ethical considerations.
E) all of the above.

Question 11

Police officers can use information about values and the theories and practices of leadership and ethics to:

A) better understand themselves.
B) strengthen leadership capabilities.
C) motivate and influence others.
D) do the right thing.
E) all of the above.

Question 12

Essential police leadership competencies may be defined as the skills necessary to promote community engagement, participation, and problem solving.

Question 13

An ethical leader:

A) may to enhance credibility by demonstrating inconsistencies.
B) must be more virtuous in public life than in private life.
C) does not challenge the process of operations. qd. is trustworthy, competent, and of good character.
D) is trustworthy, competent, and of good character.
E) all of the above.

Question 14

An ethical leader is one who possesses a philosophical moral foundation upon which decisions and behavior are based.

Question 15

Ethical leadership is restricted to supervisory police personnel because sharing command is unworkable in a democratic society.

Question 16

Because ethical leadership development is an event rather than a process, most leadership training and education resources should be directed toward recruits in a police academy.

Question 17

A leadership quality does not lend itself to objective measurement based on observable behavior.

Question 18

The CEO of a police agency focuses on achievement of operational objectives while line supervisors focus on organizational strategy.

Question 19

A popular image of the police, that which is related to physical strength and aggressiveness, is consistent with a careful analysis of a police officer's job requirements.

Question 20

Select the incorrect statement.

A) The police mission can fail because goals and priorities as not clearly defined.
B) The police are forced to work in a politically, socially, and practically problematic environment.
C) In many problematic environments, the police may fail without ethical leadership skills.
D) The police rarely confront critical and difficult problems facing society.
E) All of the above are incorrect statements.

Question 21

As compared to leadership qualities, leadership competencies (skills):

A) can be acquired through learning.
B) can be measured objectively.
C) focus on the ability to do rather than feel.
D) are not defined in terms of subjective human emotions.
E) all of the above.

Question 22

_____ leadership competencies are used to create a vision, prioritize, delegate, and define goals and objectives.

A) Communications and related interpersonal
B) Motivational
C) Problem solving
D) Planning and organizing
E) Actuation-implementation

Question 23

Select the incorrect statement.

A) Most police activity involves situational management.
B) Most police activity involves physical confrontation.
C) Most police activity requires ethical leadership.
D) Most police activity involves the exercise of discretion.
E) All of the above are incorrect statements.