Steve Jobs
How Steve Jobs demonstrated or used coercive and legitimate power
Coercive power
Jobs was famously arrogant, even pulling up to Apple's front entrance and parking in a handicapped space in the famously crowded Apple parking lot, because no one dared to ticket him (Kahney 2008).
Employees lived in fear of being fired by Jobs at Apple. "At most companies, the red-faced, tyrannical boss is an outdated archetype, a caricature from the life of Dagwood. Not at Apple. Whereas the rest of the tech industry may motivate employees with carrots, Jobs is known as an inveterate stick man" (Kahney 2008).
Jobs was known to curse at or openly berate employees in public whom he felt were underperforming (Mui 2008).
Jobs openly played favorites. "There is a small group at Apple...called the Top 100" which Jobs gathered for "an...
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