ABSTRACT
Except for such constraints on the power of a social organization executive as the organization’s governing board or other controlling body is authorized and willing to use—and, all too often, the board is disinclined or reluctant to impose such constraints—the executive is, in many ways, invested with virtually unlimited power over many things and persons. The larger and more bureaucratic the organization, and the more autonomous the executive, the greater the opportunity to exploit or abuse such power with relative impunity. The smaller the organization, on the other hand, the more direct and unsettling the experience for victims of such exploitation and abuse, and the more personal the effects may be or may feel.
