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This week's content discussed some common successful leader qualities and their ethical implications. Consider and comment on the following question: Consider honesty within the workplace. Your content this week discusses some scenarios. How would you include honesty within your workplace? 3: This week's content discussed some well-established ethical theories and their arguments. Consider and comment on the following question: Which of the ethical theories discussed in this week's content would you utilize? Are any of the theories morally superior to any of the others? Explain your answers. 4: This week's content discussed some of the behavioral theories of leadership and their ethical implications. Consider and comment on the following questions: 1. Of the Iowa Study leadership styles (autocratic, democratic, and laissez faire), what would you utilize? Are any of the styles ethically superior to any of the others? Why or why not? 2. With respect to the Michigan and Ohio Studies, do you think leaders who focus more on followers than on the duties are more ethical than other leaders? Should you be partial to one of the two dimensions? Given that the results of these studies were slightly different, who got it most right? 5: This week's content discussed SRI funds, corporate social responsibility, and environmentalism. Consider and comment on the following questions: 1. Consider the list of industries in your content in which SRI funds will not invest. Are there any on the list with which you would take issue? If you had to make an argument for the ethical premise of one of these industries (i.e. to have one of them taken off the list), which one would your argument be? 2. Consider the principle of profit maximization and the notion that businesses shouldn't be obligated to do anything but make money. Do you think businesses have an obligation to help support society and the natural environment? Consider self-regulation, should the government step in and require businesses to behave in certain ways? Why or why not? 6: This week's content discussed some of the types of power that leaders yield, and the difference between transformational and transactional leadership. Consider and comment on the following questions: 1. Our school has a very large military student demographic. Consider the dynamic of legitimate power at work in the military. Do you think that legitimate power is a less-deserved than some of the others discussed in the content? Is the predominance of legitimate power necessary to a military hierarchy? Why or why not? 2. On the subject of transformational leadership, how do you think followers would manage between credulity (charisma of a talented orator), and cynicism (being overly-skeptical with the sincerity of a leader's words)? 7: This week's content discussed some of the attempts throughout history to codify moral precepts for universal prescription. Consider and comment on the following questions: Imagine that you are asked to develop a code of ethics for a company. On which of the 'rules' discussed in the content would you base this code, and why? 8: This week's content discussed the stages of moral development as well as a variety of moral intensity factors. Consider and comment on the following questions: 1. Identify one well-known person today (politician, celebrity, etc.) who appears to be a pre-conventional moral reasoner, and describe how they've shown this? Give the same information for one person who appears to be a principled moral reasoner. 2. Reflect on the choices made by Wells Fargo and describe what an intensity analysis might have looked like for those choices, from the six intensity factors discussed in your content.