Joe Swanson's Power In The Case Of Martha Vandenberg

In this case, Principal Joe Swanson primarily utilizes two sources of power over music teacher Martha Vandenberg. The first source of power Joe Swanson has in his dealings with Martha Vandenberg is legitimate power or the power of authority through his title as Principal. While Joe does hold the majority of power in the school, he is not at the highest level of authority and does not possess the most legitimate power as he still has to answer to both the school district as well as the PTA and the Dacron Teachers' Union. In theory, legitimate power should give him enough control over employees to influence them to work harder and hold employees accountable for completing their jobs on time and at an acceptable standard (414).

At the beginning of Joe and Janie’s relationship, she was very much in love with him. When they started their endeavor to the new town, she was very proud of the man she was looking at. He moved to a new town to start his own business and buy his own land. However, as time progressed, the town began to feel lonely to Janie. She never saw Joe anymore, and when she did, he was trying to control her every move. He became very possessive and mean to her. He wanted her to submit to him, and he wouldn’t stop until he had it. The once loving relationship they had, has now become detached.

In Ernest Gaines novel, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, he stresses the importance of education of black men from the period of slavery to the civil rights movement. Education has not always been available to African Americans. During the time of slavery education was very limited as not many people were educated, especially blacks. Schools for blacks were often destroyed and those found teaching them were usually killed. A lack of education was one way that whites were able to keep control over blacks along with violence to make people scared to challenge their treatment. Throughout the book there were several educated black men that made their way into Miss Jane's life, two of which were raised by Miss Jane and were like children

Soon after they move to a new town, Eatonville, Joe concentrates his time and thoughts on being the mayor and becoming powerful, not towards Janie. One evening, as the town gathers for the grand opening of its general store, Joe denies Janie the chance to make a speech, even though the crowd wants one: “‘Thank yuh for yo’ compliments, but mah wife don’t know nothin’ ‘bout no speech-makin’. Ah never married her for nothin’ lak dat. She’s uh woman and her place is in de home’” (43). Janie, very hurt and embarrassed, does not tell Joe of her feelings, but instead keeps them to herself. This non-confrontational attitude toward her marriage shows how easily Janie lets Joe control her with his authority: “‘Ah hates disagreement and confusion, so Ah better not talk. It makes it hard to get along’” (57). Instead of working out her anger with her husband, an important quality in any working relationship, Janie keeps quiet and lets the frustration and emotion build within her.

Chapter Three, entitled Bribes and Threats, from Beyond Discipline discussed many different tools such as coercion, punishment, and rewards being used for disciplining. These specific tools are counterintuitive and result in temporary compliance or even sometimes extreme behaviors. Because of these tools being used, it leads to disastrous outcomes and makes the teachers and schools uninviting and unproductive.

Joe’s first instance of controlling behavior is met with radio-silence by Janie, indicating that she favors Joe’s company more than she desires to voice her own opinions. She fails to express her displeasure regarding Joe’s comments, and instead strives to maintain appearances, “[making] her face laugh” even though it “[isn’t] too easy” as the citizens of Eatonville watch her (Hurston 43). While Janie appears blasé to appease the crowd, she is upset that Joe prevents her from speaking, he also takes the choice from her. With Joe, Janie is “nothing more or less

Yelling, name calling and humiliation, these are just some of the things that Joe Clark had done to transform teachers who were once looked down upon by students to people that they now look up to. Through harsh methods Joe Clark was able to change teacher that once had no control over their students to people who are now looked up to, but in-order to change them he had to do more than just give them respect they had to earn it and work hard to earn it by changing how they behaved with their students. From the evidence shown it can be said that Joe Clark like his teachers to act quickly and on command thus preparing them to act quickly without notification if something were to happen in the school that would require their immediate attention. From one of Joe Clark’s quotes he states that, “Discipline establishes the format, the environment for academic achievement to occur”, meaning that without a firm hand of authority in a high position of a school, teachers will not act to their full potential because they will feel

she pressures her students and if they don't get good grades, she tosses them to the side

We can also see the abuse of power in the following event. In early spring, a piece of news that Snowball was back astonished everyone and meanwhile, a strange thing happened. “He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the

In addition to power established because of organizational hierarchy or role, power is also established based on the level of influence or status one holds in an organization (Anichich, Fast, Halevy, Galinsky, 2016). “Status is the outcome of an evaluation of attributes that produce differences in respect and prominence” (Ketner et al, 2003 p. 266) They co-exists but are not co-dependent on each other. It’s possible to have status without power and power without status (Ketner et al, 2003). Whether one’s control comes through status or positional power, lauding control or significant influence over another inevitably leads to conflict.

In the film "Lean on Me", Joe Clark, a fictional version of the real Mr. Clark who was the principal at an inner-city high school in Paterson, New Jersey, is the ultimate example of an authoritarian leader. In the movie, Clark approaches his job at a decaying academic setting with single-minded goals: to clean up the school, physically and academically, in order to help the students who have potential to graduate and to get rid of the ones who are destined to fail, according to his perceptions. Clark 's leadership style has been both widely praised as successful and a model for similar such schools, and has also been criticized for its bullying tactics. This paper will discuss Clark 's methods of leadership, his style and tactics as

Therefore, both Joe and Janie are looked up to by the townspeople. To some extent, this could be considered a form of equality. Unfortunately, this is about where the equality stops. While Joe gains prominence through his own actions and words, Janie gains some prominence by doing what she is told to do. She is not permitted to voice her own opinions or join in the lighthearted gossiping which occurs outside of their store. Janie is expected to be the dutiful wife. If she makes a mistake, then she should have known better and therefore should accept her punishment quietly. Joe holds the obvious upper hand in the relationship until his death whereupon Janie inherits a large amount of money and learns to enjoy the freedom of living as her own person.

“Coercive power relies on the fact that people fear you, and reward power is only effective so long as people value the rewards you have to offer. Legitimate power relies on your rank in the company hierarchy, and recent events

As you can see having power has more advantages than disadvantages, but one of the main problems is that you can have the power and still not be an effective leader. When you have the authority, leaders often feel that they can say anything to make the people believe that they are correct. Most of the time people are blinded by the power, that they are often bamboozled to what is actually right. They feel that people with power can do no wrong; they will always be fair and truthful, when most who hold the power are not honest people at all. It goes to show you that just because you have the power, it doesn’t make you an effective leader, it just makes you the boss. Being in a situation where you have worked hard and not given the credit, due to the fact that you have had a manager with power that doesn’t want you to excel is an obstacle that many people working in society face today. So called leaders who hold their power

Comparatively, positional power also has a great significance use in our daily lives. Police officers, lawyers, teachers, parents, managers and even just a normal person has some sort of positional power. This common power is specified as having authority and influence over another person. A person with positional power is coercive, which means they have power over others. For example, parents can make their children do something that they don 't want to do since the child wouldn 't have any choice. A police officer can also use their title as an advantage to have authority over us which means if we disobey them, there will be consequences, simply because of their positional power. The difference