How to Coach Yourself and Others Beware of Manipulation | Page 119

21. Playing the servant role:

Cloaking a self-serving agenda in guise
of a service to a more noble cause, for
example saying he is acting in a certain
way for "obedience" and "service" to
God or a similar authority figure or
that he is working nobly on your behalf
while concealing his own desire for
power and dominance.
One hallmark of a covert aggressive
personality is he will loudly profess his
subservience while fighting for
dominance.
This manipulation technique is not to
be confused with the "Noble Cause
Corruption", which occurs when a
person tries to produce a just outcome
through unjust methods.
For example: police manipulating
evidence to ensure a conviction of a
known offender.
Normal integrity regime initiatives are unlikely to halt noble cause corruption as its basis lies in an
attempt to do good by compensating for the apparent flaws in an unjust system.
The overall findings of an Australian study based on a concrete case, were that police officers were
motivated to indulge in this type of corruption through a desire to p &