Coercion

This essay describes employers need to impose coercion as a form of leadership to gain maximum cooperation and productivity from employees. This autocratic style of leadership has resulted in workers introducing labour unions to gain some form of control. But nevertheless, employers had leverage on the labour union. Consequently, these imposing constraints on employees has led to maximum dissatisfaction, inefficiency etc. Coercion in the essay focus on punishment It also seeks to provide…

Coercion is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as, to force one to act or think in a certain manner, to dominate, restrain, or control by force. Often at work or in a group environment one might utilise this form of power to control dominance over the group. This usage of power can often make other team members conform. In another definition, coercion is described as "using force or authority to make a person do something against his or her will" (Collins Compact Dictionary, 2001, p.166).…

The case that I have chosen to write about is the very first on the list that we were given to choose from. Brown v. Mississippi that ultimately had the ruling of, “physical coercion violates the Fourth Amendment” (Becker, et al. p. 197). In this case, the defendants were charged with murdering an individual by the name of Raymond Stewart. Initially the confessions were admitted as evidence, the three men were convicted, and sentence of death passed. The Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the…

obligation, the reasoning for most states surely must go beyond this. It would seem there are several key reasons states would willfully reduce their sovereignty by participating in international law. These reasons are: coercion, persuasion, and morality, or some combination of the three. Coercion, often called the realist approach is based on the discrepancy of power between the states of the word; there are weak states and strong states. The weak states are at the (hopefully righteous) will of…

Mappes lays out two ways in which this can happen, through deception and through coercion. Deception, not only includes lying or misrepresentation, but withholding information from a person. For example, if an individual discloses information that they have a sexually transmitted disease, for fear that the person they will have sexual interactions with would not give their voluntary informed consent. On the subject of coercion, Mappes notes that rape is one of the most vivid examples of the…

first condition for coercion and how Conly’s argument can be strengthened by adjusting the first condition for coercion so that it acknowledges the public sphere’s effects on understanding rape. Conly argues that verbal coercion can be used as a…

There is a thin line between torture, coercion, and persuasion. For some countries, torture is an adequate form of punishment used to not only instill fear, but to also show the consequences of prohibited actions to others. However, for the United States and other countries who have signed the Geneva Convention, torture is strictly prohibited, but is still practiced in different forms. The article “The Dark Art of Interrogation,” written by Mark Bowden, explores various interrogation techniques…

real restriction might come from the idea that although the lack of external coercion is accepted as necessary for freedom, coercion may also be internal. If individuals are affected by compulsion, addiction, irrational prejudices, or uncontrolled passions and if the choices they make are informed by ignorance, stupidity, manipulation, or propaganda, then they lack freedom as much as if they had experienced external coercion. Being free from external interference…

initiation of the use of coercion by anyone upon the person or property of anyone else for any reason. (Coercion is here defined as any action taken by a human being against the will or without the permission of another human being with respect to his or her body or property. This includes murder, rape, kidnaping, assault, trespassing, burglary, robbery, arson and fraud.) Some libertarians not only oppose all forms of initiatory coercion, but also the use of retaliatory coercion (revenge or…

how is coercion justified within his account of the moral law. Kant argues that right should be understood as intrinsically connected with the justificatory nature of coercion where when one acts rightly, no legitimate basis exists for others to coerce them from engaging in the act. Instead, coercion obtains its legitimacy only when others do not act rightly, and then the coercion must be utilized in a way that is compatible with right with the intentions of re-establishing right. When coercion…