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Analysis: Are You A Micromanager When There's A Fear Of Failure

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Imagine waking up every morning forcing yourself to go to work, and knowing that your boss is the antagonist in your life. Abusive power in the work place can be shown when the boss is micromanaging to the extreme; physically and verbal abusing employees, and creating demands that go against terms of employment; in effect, making employees feel as if they were in prison, and physiologically feel worthless. Abusive behavior creates an intimidating work environment. Hostile work environment includes micromanaging, sexual harassment,and bullying employees. Micromanaging is what people naturally think a boss should do; for example, bosses should oversee what everyone is doing ,and have them .Kirsten Drake wrote the book Are you a micromanager …show more content…

When the boss is eager to finish a project, they start to micromanage everyone, and in effect the employees begin to stress. Employees that are stress can evolve into a domino effect to the company. Employers that micromanage do not trust their employees; which leads into hovering over them while they`re working, and by hovering over the employees tend to act nervous and not perform to their full capability. Sexual harassment in the workplace is still common today as it was fifty years ago. the Harvey Weinstein allegation is a good example of employer sexual harassment; According to The Economist “The "casting couch"--the film industry's cosy euphemism for the extortion of sexual favors from movie hopefuls by Hollywood power-brokers--has been under renewed scrutiny in recent days, after allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Harvey Weinstein, a producer, published in the New Yorker and New York Times earlier this month. More than 40 women, many of them famous, have now added their names to the list of victims of crimes they say ranged from demands for sex in return for roles, to indecent exposure, to groping and even rape”. Harvey Weinstein would use his power to promise women roles for movies, in exchanged for sex and sexual

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In the current investigation on sexual assault at Scotland Yard there are three more possible allegations being held against Harvey Weinstein. This article shows how common sexual assault actually is. “Anthony told the Sunday Times that Weinstein had become a friend after they met in 1982, but in the late 1980s he had raped her at her home in London.” “Smith alleged in the mail on Sunday that in 1992 she was raped by Weinstein in the basement flat below Miramax’s offices in Fulham, southwest London.” “The UK claims follow several more allegations of rape made my actors in the US against Weinstein.”

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Every sixty-eight seconds, an American is sexually assaulted, and it is stated that only twenty-five out of every one thousand perpetrators will see the consequences of their actions (RAINN). Now, imagine if the world was a place where victims felt as if they could speak up and receive proper assistance without question and judgment. Imagine if every sexual assault case concluded with justice for the victim. Laurie Halse Anderson tells her own story of sexual violence and the struggles of the aftermath through the eyes of high school freshman, Melinda Sordino, in her work Speak. Throughout the novel, Melinda internally fights with herself on who to protect, herself and other females around her, or her attacker’s reputation.

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