An aggressive, ambitious manager who displayed coercive power would use his authority to make employees fear for their jobs. Ellen was the executive secretary to the Vice President of Blue Cross Blue Shield who felt it was time to be more than just a secretary. She wanted to become a manager, she went to the Vice President (her boss) explaining how she could organize a pool of secretaries that would benefit the company by having everything centralized and creating a faster and more efficient team. The Vice President approved her suggestion and promoted her to management. She subsequently assumed control of a secretarial team on the 7th floor consisting of four women and the executive secretary of the company president. After being a manager for a couple of months, she felt she wanted to include more secretaries on her team, so she went back to the vice president and convinced him to let her take on the purchasing secretary as well. Received approval and I was immediately transferred to the secretarial pool. That was the day my career, full of satisfactions, turned into a nightmare. When I was a secretary in the purchasing department, I liked the atmosphere and teamwork. Work or career was the light in my life and my boss Tamara at the time was a great leader, committed, hard working and appreciative of the company and the people around her. Not once was I afraid to keep my job, because according to Tamara I was an asset. Then Ellen took over my position for her team and the difference in management was total, night and day. Now I felt threatened by the impossible deadlines, the information written about me in my work file, and the daily fact of not meeting his standards. It was… half the paper… people. Works Cited Buhler, PM (2007) Managing the Millenium, 00395854, vol. 68, Issue 7 retrieved from EBSCOClark, D. (2010) Character and Traits in Leadership, A Big Dog Little Dog retrieved from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadchr.htmlKelloway, EK, Sivanathan, N ., Francis, L. Barling, J. (2004) Mismanagement, 05-Barling.qxd, p. 89 retrieved from http://www.sagepub.com/upmdata/5012_Barling_Chapter_5.pdf Washington State Department of Labor and Industry (2011), Workplace Bullying and Disruptive Behavior: What Everyone Needs to Know, Sharp Safety & Health Assessment and Research for Prevention, Report no. 87-2-2011 April 2011, retrieved from http://www.lni.wa.gov/safety/research/files/bullying.pdf