The term prepotent is used when you want to refer that this or that individual has more power than another or others, although it is also frequently used to account for the one who abuses the power he holds and who, for example, makes his subordinates or people who are in his charge or below his level feel it. “My boss is arrogant, he told us that if we don't finish our tasks before Friday, he won't pay us for vacations.”
Individual who has more power than others and who uses it normally to impose himself on his subordinates
Precisely in the workplace is where the overbearing is observed the most and is materialized in that person who occupies a managerial or maximum position and who in the name of it does and undoes at will.
It forces an employee to do a task that does not correspond to him, it overpowers his rights in some aspect, among the most common actions.
Misuse of your authority through violence
The overbearing will stand out from the rest especially because unduly and unfairly uses his authority over another who occupies a position or a place inferior to his within a hierarchy.
It is a frequent situation in the superior-subordinate relationship, that the superior shows an arrogant way of acting and therefore exceeds in the exercise of his attributions in front of that subordinate. When, for example, a boss uses his employee or subordinate to satisfy interests that are linked to his personal orbit, having nothing to do with the obligations of the company, he will be exercising abuse of authority and therefore being arrogant with his employee.
Meanwhile, the attitude or behavior of the arrogant is called arrogance.
Arrogance is characterized by trying to achieve the ends or objectives through subjugation, threats and in some cases even through the use of physical violence.
Presence in the security forces and in politics
In public order we can find ourselves with arrogance; many times some individuals who work in the Nation's security forces tend to use overbearing ways in the development of their tasks.
The responsibility of these bodies is to ensure that public order is maintained in compliance, but this does not imply that they must exceed the exercise of their function and use, for example, physical violence against any person.
We cannot ignore that within the security forces themselves, situations of arrogance between superiors and subordinates tend to arise, which must be denounced if they happen, because they only tarnish their work.
For example, they detain a person without any justification and do not allow him to contact a lawyer or a family member to give them an account of his situation. "The officer who detained me was very arrogant, he kept me incommunicado for more than ten hours.”
On the other hand, in politics it is common to observe this mode of behavior, especially in those who have the power to manage a nation, for example a president or a head of government.
Normally this conduct is common in those governments or administrations of an authoritarian or dictatorial nature.
Of course, the leader who behaves in this way does not accept any type of opposition and when he feels that someone is opposed to his interests or authority, he brings out the weight of authority, and imposes it to intimidate those who are in inferior conditions. .
Those countries governed by undemocratic authorities tend to imprison and persecute those people who profess against their management or who question it in some aspect.
Criminal law considers this situation as a crime in which a person invested with authority and within the framework of his management violates the rights of another person. In most laws it is classified as abuse of authority and of course whoever is found to have committed this crime will be punished in accordance with current regulations.
