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Management Skills Application Exercises

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Management Skills Application Exercises

  1. What are some advantages and disadvantages of leaders, managers, and employees having and working with a principle-centered approach (using some ethical principles in the chapter) rather than taking a “come what may,” trust in luck, circumstance and chance approach?
  2. Would you rather work for a company that takes a stakeholder or stockholder approach in its dealings with customers, employees, suppliers, and other constituencies in its network? Explain.
  3. What are some principles (from the chapter) that leaders and managers can use to guide their actions in ethical ways?
  4. What can organizational managers and leaders learn with regard to organizational cultures that would inspire and motivate employees to do the right thing in their work?
  5. What type of leaders and leadership styles and practices often lead to problems with employees, customers, and other stakeholders and stockholders?
  6. Describe how a leader, manager, and employee might think and act differently if their organization seriously adopted and practiced doing business with a corporate social responsibility mindset.
  7. What are some concerns that have ethical implications that a leader, manager, or employee might have when doing business internationally or globally?
  8. After reading the section in the chapter on ethical and compliance trends going forward, what top two or three things do you think organizational leaders and managers would want to take action on preparing for now? Why?
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