Character Analysis: The Walking Dead

Negan a charming, murderous, tyrant, and perfect dictator. Throughout AMC 's The Walking Dead many antagonistic post-apocalyptic leaders have crossed paths with Rick Grime 's and friends, however, none appeared as effective in leading as Negan. Negan is a baseball bat wielding dictator who leads The Saviors a large organization of hostile survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Which makes Negan 's ability to control his survivors and others more impressive. Methods such as those of Jeremy Bentham are used to police people. While Negan is brutal and willing to kill he prefers to rule rather than wipe out opposing groups. Negan uses philosophies of totalitarianism and modern 21st-century management to establish ordered chaos while acquiring new

Negan displays an understanding and love of talent development. While showing a dislike for yes-men “a person who agrees with everything that is said” (Merriam-Webster). Yes-men have been thought to contribute nothing to the 21st-century corporate world. When approaching complex questions Negan displays the use of all these schools of thoughts to make his decisions. Negan shows the use of Jeremy Bentham 's system for self-policing. Jeremy Bentham a English philosopher designed a prison called the Panopticon from the geek term “all seeing” (Kietzman). Essentially this system made it impossible for a prisoner to tell if a guard was watching them. In this system good behavior is rewarded while bad behavior was punished, the idea behind this is that when people think they are under constant surveillance they police themselves (Kietzman). This system is the idea of work smarter rather than harder. With people policing themselves it allows for complete control manipulating people

Through a understanding of talent development Negan can spot people who can be of some value and does whatever it takes to get them working for him. In the episode 'The Day Will Come When You Won 't Be ' Negan out right says “This was career day. We invested a lot in you so you would know who I am, and what I can do.”(Gimple). Now Negan could just kill Rick and friends because they did kill a awful lot of his Saviors but Negan is smart enough to see the value in these people. Negan does not only punish people as a stereotypical villian would do but he also rewards them. The Saviors have a point system to incentive work as seen by the clip board with names and numbers in the episode 'The Cell '. A consistent reward system has been shown to be effective however psychologist say there is a even more effective way to get people to do things for you. Behavioral physiologist such as B.F Skinner have found when rewards are variable it is more effective in