Chapter 4 Flashcards
One’s integrity depends on a moral compass that consists of what kind of values?
Moral
Human
Core
Ethical
Ethical
What is the only option a strength base leader has?
The ability to lead others
To be centered and moving forward on this path
To follow their moral compass
Serve as an examples of integrity of character
To be centered and moving forward on this path
What is lost without integrity?
The path of your moral compass
Your ethical values
The ability to lead others
Being a leader
The ability to lead others
Our character itself is not ______.
Learned
Developed
Predetermined
Predestined
Predestined
What does our ethical conduct generally reveal and often reinforce?
Our character
Our integrity
Our values
Our moral duties
Our character
What are concerned with moral duties and how we should behave regarding both ends and means?
Ethics
Ethical values
Moral
Moral values
Ethics
Which of the following are ethical values?
Honor, duty, and integrity
Thoughtfulness, honor, and character
Fidelity, character, and law-abidingness
Forgiveness, accountability, and compassion
Forgiveness, accountability, and compassion
Here are some additional ethical values: Honesty Fidelity Duty Respect for others Thoughtfulness Honor Law-abidingness
What must ethical values include?
Action and purpose
Morals
Honesty and integrity
Meaning and purpose
Action and purpose
In police work, _______ like trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship are simply factors to be taken into account.
Ethical principles
Ethical values
Good character
Ethics
Ethical principles
What is a prescription for the way things ought to be and not descriptions of the way things are?
Ethical principles
Ethical values
Good character
Ethics
Ethics
What do police leaders struggle with daily?
Having integrity
How to cultivate a work environment of ethical behavior
Trying to compartmentalize their lives into personal and police domains
If a personal obligation is an ethical one
How to cultivate a work environment of ethical behavior
Which ones are approaches to dealing with ethical challenges?
Community-oriented policing and value-oriented policing
Compliance-based programs and community-oriented programs
Value-oriented programs and compliance-based programs
Value-oriented policing and community-oriented programs
Value-oriented programs and compliance-based programs
“There are three very different approaches to dealing with ethical challenges:
Neglect
Compliance-based programs
Values-oriented programs”
When the department sidesteps ethics, how do they view ethics?
Meaningless
Tiresome
Unimportant
Waste of energy
Unimportant
What is most often designed by policy makers, administrative staff, and legal counsel?
Community-oriented policing
Value-oriented policing
Compliance-based programs
Value-based programs
Compliance-based programs
What are compliance-based programs based on?
Rules and regulations
Law and order
Ethics and morals
Goals and objectives
Rules and regulations
What are the goals of compliance-based programs?
Preventing, acknowledging, and punishing legal violations
Detecting, recognizing, and punishing legal violations
Preventing, detecting, and enforcing legal violations
Preventing, detecting, and punishing legal violations
Preventing, detecting, and punishing legal violations
Why doesn’t the compliance-based program work well?
Rules beget rules; regulations beget regulations
They send a disturbing message to the employees: “We don’t respect your intelligence or trust you!”
It has not kept police supervisor or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.
All the above
All the above
What is one of the most compelling reasons for downplaying compliance-based programs?
Rules beget rules; regulations beget regulations
They send a disturbing message to the employees: “We don’t respect your intelligence or trust you!”
It has not kept police supervisors or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.
It does not balance the ethical concerns of the community with the values of the police organization.
It has not kept police supervisors or employees from exercising poor judgement and making stupid decisions.
What approach relies on identifying ethical principles?
Compliance-based approach
Value-oriented approach
Community oriented approach
Problem oriented approach
Compliance-based approach
The Joseph Institute of Ethics advocates six pillars of character. What do they define?
Morals and ethics
Morals and values
Moral duties and virtues
Values and ethics
Moral duties and virtues
Which of the following are part of the six pillars of character?
Respect, fairness, and caring
Moral, ethics, and values
Honesty, integrity, and respect
All of the above
Respect, fairness, and caring
Which pillar is an especially important ethic of value?
Honesty
Trustworthiness
Respect
None of the above
Trustworthiness
Which pillars are fundamental ethical values?
Honesty and integrity
Respect and fairness
Caring and responsibility
Honesty, integrity, and respect
Respect and fairness
Which ethical concept embodies three separate values: accountability, self-restraint, and pursuit of excellence?
Respect
Fairness
Responsibility
Honesty
Responsibility
Which value is one of the most elusive ethical values?
Respect
Fairness
Responsibility
Honesty
Fairness
Which ethical value embodies the values of justice, equity, due process, openness, and consistency?
Respect
Fairness
Responsibility
Honesty
Fairness
What is the core of many ethical values?
Respect
Caring
Pursuit of excellence
Concern for the interests of others
Concern for the interests of others
How do we first examine ethical issues?
We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision
By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.
We examine the complexity of issues that must be considered in each decision.
We define the role each person’s judgement plays in ethically carrying out his or her responsibilities.
By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.
What is the second step in examining ethical issues?
We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision
By identifying which of these six ethical principles applies to a particular ethical decision.
We examine the complexity of issues that must be considered in each decision.
We define the role each person’s judgement plays in ethically carrying out his or her responsibilities.
We determine which internal and which external stakeholders’ ethical guidelines should influence the decision
What strongly influences the decisions of employees?
The ethical concerns of the community with the values of the police organization
His or her obligations to contribute to the overall public good
The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.
A matter of personal character
The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.
What spells out the department’s ethical culture?
His or her obligations to contribute to the overall public good
The department’s entrenched sense of integrity and its willingness to enforce the rules.
Moral duties and virtues of its employees
The combination of individual integrity and organizational integrity
The combination of individual integrity and organizational integrity
What determines the nature of the results achieved?
What is rewarded, sanctioned, or allowed
What is tolerated or rewarded
What is sanctioned or tolerated
What is rewarded, sanctioned, or tolerated
What is rewarded, sanctioned, or allowed
When a supervisor believes that integrity is truly valued and enforced by the department and that appropriate punishment can be expected if he is caught lying about the fact to enhance the department’s productivity statistics, what is the supervisor more likely to do?
Avoid deceptive conduct
Be honest and fair
Promote honesty and integrity
Reward those who are honesty
Avoid deceptive conduct
What plays a prominent role in recruitment, employment, orientation, in-service training, performance reviews, and discipline?
Ethical values and integrity
Honesty and integrity
Virtuous values and integrity
Trustworthiness and integrity
Virtuous values and integrity
An agency that wants to strengthen its ethical culture hires for ____ and trains for ____.
Honesty / talent
Character / skills
Character / talent
Honesty / skills
Character / skills
What stage are employees weeded out for lack of moral commitment?
Performance reviews
Hiring
Application
Background checks
Background checks
When do agencies assess ethical conduct?
Performance reviews
Hiring
Application
Background checks
Performance reviews
Whatever you allow you encourage and whatever employees will do for you, they will do to you are known as
Tolerance
Code of conduct
Basic laws of supervision
Ethical values
Basic laws of supervision
Who you are or want to be as a person translates into who you are or want to be as a
Supervisor
Team leader
Employee
Strength-based leader
Strength-based leader
What kind of people rarely feel guilty because they deny, they justify, they rationalize, and they refuse to accept their share of responsibility?
Lack accountability
Morally challenged
Unethical
Unfair
Unethical
Who struggles with the distance between what they care about and what they’re doing about it?
Unethical people
People with high morals
People with good ethics
Ethically aware people
Ethically aware people
What kind of employee tries to keep their bad notions within due bonds?
Virtuous employees
Ethically aware
Unethical people
Trustworthy people
Virtuous employees
The true measure of a person’s _____ is what that person would do if he or she were sure nobody would ever ever know about it.
Virtues
Integrity
Ethics
Morals
Integrity
What kind of decisions require a lot of courage?
Ethical decisions
Moral decisions
Discipline decisions
No decision
Ethical decisions
What gives ethics zest?
Morals
Ethics
Courage
Bravery
Courage
Many of us are quick to side with integrity until a dilemma hits them. Then what happens?
Ethics become negotiable
Integrity becomes negotiable
Morals become negotiable
The decisions is based on courage
Ethics become negotiable
What does an ethical code do?
Allows the supervisor to make good quality decisions
Judges some behaviors as better than others
Gives us courage
Establishes a baseline
Judges some behaviors as better than others
What are the two forms of grit most often thought of?
Ethics and morals
Ethics and integrity
Integrity and bravery
Bravery and physical courage
Bravery and physical courage
Which form of grit did C. S. Lewis refer to when he said, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
Moral
Ethics
Integrity
Bravery
Moral
Which one of the following does our integrity require us to put at risk at the testing point?
Compassion
Empathy
Possessions
Ethics
Possessions
other answers : comfort, relationships, and careers
Which grit is rare?
Courage
Moral
Bravery
Physical
Physical
Which grit is tested almost every day?
Courage
Moral
Bravery
Physical
Moral
What is the inner strength to do what’s right even when it costs more than what we want to pay?
Ethical values
Moral
Courage
Integrity
Integrity
What sort of bravery is the best indicator of where your heart lies?
Virtue
Ethics
Integrity
Physical courage
Virtue
A public office is at once also a public ______.
Choice
Trust
Position
Officer
Trust
What are especially useful when we are faced with choices about brutality, stealing, perjury, and bribe-taking?
Law and order
Rules and regulations
Ethics and morals
Laws and rules
Laws and rules
What are needed to define minimum standards of conduct?
Laws
Rules
Order
Ethics
Laws
What is one reason ethics are much easier said than done?
Ethics and morals are grits you are born with and can not learn them
It comes from your inner strength
Legal and unethical behavior has clearly become integrated into our thinking
Ethics encourages us to accept only existing laws as ethics
Legal and unethical behavior has clearly become integrated into our thinking
Knowingly making unreasonable demands is an example of _______.
Ethics
Mistake of the mind
Lack of inner strength
Legal and unethical behavior
Legal and unethical behavior
Here are more common examples: Embellishing claims Scapegoating personal failures Shirking distasteful responsibilities Stonewalling questions Acting insincerely Reneging on promises Covering up Making consequential decisions unilaterally Malingering Lying
The behaviors of personal responsibility, honesty, and fairness are all examples of ____.
Legal and ethical behavior
Positive inner strength
Morally correct behavior
Ethical values
Morally correct behavior
What are far too narrow or minimal to act as a substitute for ethics?
Rules
Laws
Regulations
Values
Laws
We expect _____ from laws and demand _____ from people.
Everything / nothing
Nothing / everything
Too much / too little
Too little / too much
Too much / too little
What choices typically involve tangible laws and rules?
Clear, immoral
Clear, ethical
Clear, unethical
Clear, moral
Clear, ethical
Which is an example of moral issues and ethical nuances which are confusing choices?
Use of excessive force
Bribe-taking
Untruthfulness
Embellishing claims
Use of excessive force
Which of the following are requirements of ethical decision making?
Determination
Capacity to evaluate complex or confusing facts
Self control
Changing the way things are to the way they ought to be
Capacity to evaluate complex or confusing facts
When there is a gap between reality and ethical standards, what do strength based leaders not do?
Adjust their ethics
Alter their code of conduct
Work to change the way things are to the way they ought to be
Surrender their standards
Surrender their standards
How will police supervisors be judged?
On their ethics
On their morals
On their most recent best decision
On their last, worst decision
On their last, worst decision
Ethical decision making is a skill that ______.
Can be taught
Can be learned
You are born with
None of the above
Can be learned
What is the first step in ethical decision making?
Know what ethics are
Determine if the decision is yours to make
Make a plan
Put down self-deception and rationalize
Know what ethics are
What desire is so compelling to most police personnel?
Train
Follow direction and guidance
Work to change the way things are to the way they ought to be
Want to do the right thing
Want to do the right thing
What increases the likelihood that police personnel will act more ethically more often?
Having good ethical values
Having courage
Better and more frequent training
Being a good strength based leader
Better and more frequent training
What describes the character of a person who has united the various facets of his or her personality so that there is no longer any quarrelling within about what is right?
Integrity
Self discipline
Strength based leader
Ethics
Integrity
Being a person of ______ is not easy.
Integrity
Self discipline
Leadership
Character
Character
