UIW ORGL6301 All Weeks Homework Discussions Latest 2020 March

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 1 Homework Discussion

Homework Q1.1: Discuss some of the destructive leaders’ behaviors that the article mentions, including indirect and/or passive behaviors. What real life examples do you have of leaders in the news that exhibit these behaviors?

Homework Q1.2: What does the article say about followers?

Homework Q1.3: What role would you argue unconscious biases: Blind Spot bias and Ethical Licensing bias play in the destructive behavior we see in many business and political leaders (see media link for audios on these biases)?

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 2 Homework Discussion

Homework Q2.1: What did you learn from this article that further added to your understanding of “moral identity?”

Homework Q2.2: What are some of the practical implications from this research that managers can apply as they go about leading others?

Homework Q2.3: What does the article say about the effect of transformational/transactional leadership on follower moral identity?

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 3 Homework Discussion

Homework Q3.1: What did you learn about moral psychology, media ethics, and moral exemplars after reading this article?

Homework Q3.2: What are 2-3 key takeaways from the results of this research?

Homework Q3.3: What do personality traits have to do with overall moral reasoning?

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 4 Homework Discussion

Homework Q 4.1: Select an example of the Pygmalion Effect of your choosing in the news and discuss its application. Please make sure you define the Pygmalion Effect in your discussion.

Homework Q 4.2: Select an example of the Golem Effect of your choosing in the news and discuss its application. Please make sure you define the Golem Effect in your discussion.

 

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 5 Homework Discussion

Homework Q 5.1: Select and discuss in a minimum of 300 words an example in national or world business where you believe a CEO and his company is being authentic in addressing the impact of COVID 19 on the company’s employees and us the customer. (You may use any of the multiple emails that companies have been sending out in response to the COVID 19 pandemic in your response).

Homework Q 5.2: Select an example in national or world business or current events where you believe an individual is clearly demonstrating transformational leadership regarding COVID 19. Please explain your point of view.

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 6 Homework Discussion

Homework Q 6.1:  How might Groupthink Bias affect building an ethical small group?

Please refer to Doc X MD and Audra RN Funny Feelings Group Think Bias audio posted in Week 6 Media Links.

Homework Q 6.2:  Discuss what you think might be the most important challenges in building an ethical small group.

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 7 Homework Discussion

Homework Q 7.1:  Management professors Bart Victor and John Cullen argue that ethical climates can be classified according to the criteria members use to make moral choices and the groups that members refer to when making ethical determinations. Please discuss in your own words what the five primary climates of: Instrumental, Caring, Law and Order, Rules, and Independence mean to you.

 

ORGL6301 Principles of Ethical Leadership

Week 8 Homework Discussion

Please read the news reports below following Trump’s comments on injecting disinfectant to treat COVID 19

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/states-spike-poison-control-calls

https://news.yahoo.com/see-full-video-transcript-trump-133316003.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lysol-responds-trumps-claims-injections-135502337.html

Please discuss from an ethical point the responsibility of the following individuals to clearly separate fact from fiction regarding the use of injecting disinfectant to treat COVID 19 (include in your discussion comments where appropriate the impact of the “Illusory Truth Effect.”)

What is President Trump’s ethical responsibility?

What is a consumer/patient’s ethical responsibility?

What is a reporter’s ethical responsibility?

What is the maker of the disinfectant’s ethical responsibility?