NS3, Leadership Unit 2

This leadership trait is perhaps the most difficult to define, since it generally cannot be legally enforced.

• Self-confidence

• Professional knowledge

• Moral responsiblity

• Devotion to duty

• Loyality

Senior leaders who are overly-familiar with personnel of lower rank may be guilty of what?

• Dereliction of duty

• Discrimination

• Faternization

• Moral excess

• Excessive self-discipline

A leader should always bear in mind that everyone wants, needs, and responds to....

• Recognition

• Shouting

• Punishment

• Kind words and gestures

• Discipline

A person who loses control of himself and gets angry....

• usually loses control of the situation.

• will quickly change the minds and opinions of subordinates

• generally gets noticed and respected.

• will be seen as the authority figure in a difficult situation.

• usually solves the problem quickly.

What do new leaders have a tendency to do with minor infractions they see in subordinates?

• Be too harsh

• To look the other way

• To delegate responsiblity

• Be too lenient

• To take too long to act

Never make a regulation....

• That you cannot or will not enforce.

• That goes against common sense.

• That is too easy to follow.

• Until you've cleared it with your superiors.

• If it takes longer to write down than to say aloud.

Self-discipline begins with what?

• Loyalty

• Enforcement of laws

• Peer pressure

• Self-control

• Organizational discipline

The key to having good discipline within an organization is to ensure ___________ in the individual members of the organization.

• Professional knowledge

• Courage

• Self-confidence

• Loyalty

• Self-discipline

Which of the following would be a good sign that a military organization had good discipline?

• Proper wearing of the uniform

• Prompt and correct action in any emergency

• Clean and well-maintained spaces

• Smart salutes

• All of these are examples of good discipline in a military organization

Formal rules that are put into effect by duly constituted authority are called....

• Proclamations

• Conventions

• Mandates

• Suggestions

• Laws