Application $4\mathrm{.}7$ "Nobody Wins"

Craig is a supervisor in a community agency, and Marilyn is a staff member

who works part time. Craig coerces Marilyn into taking on a community

volunteer program $$ a job she neither wants nor has time to develop at a

competent level. Marilyn resists working on the program $$ a job she neither

wants nor has time to develop at a competent level. Marilyn resists working on

the program, and deadlines are looming. Craig, noticing her avoidance,

humiliates her in a public meeting by pointing out what has not been done,

and asking her to agree to work hard on the program. Marilyn accedes $($on the

surface$)$ but talks to her friends about how poorly she is treated. After two

months of Craig's disapproval of her progress and of her seeking social

support and a new job elsewhere, she brings Craig her resignation. $($See page

$130$ for the internal thoughts$/$feelings Marilyn and Craig might have had.$)$

Answer the following questions about Craig and Marilyn:

$$ How might Marilyn have changed her low$-$power stance into a

constructive one?

$$ How might Craig have changed his "power over" stance into a

constructive one?

$$ What might a beginning dialogue that is constructive sound like?