How to break your employee?

Managers or administrator use various tactics to break their employees like
1. Kill his autonomy.
2. Keep the decision making to yourself.
3. Maintain your aura.
4. Act superior to him like dress, manners etc.
5. Use words frugally.
6. Break his network.
7. Do not heed to his basic needs.
8. Be mercurial/unpredictable.
9. Don't give him opportunity.
10. Keep him on the edge.

This is the situation in most of the jobs. These are the tactics deployed by an insecure manager, when he wishes to assert his dominance over his employee who he think can challenge his authority. Be it private sector or government sector.

There are different ways  an employee can respond to this situation?
One way could be avoidance behavior. It could be reflected in following ways.
1. Do not seek satisfaction from job.
2. Diversify your talent or source of Income.
3. Become passive.
4. Build your network.
5. Maintain silence.
6. Live easy.
7. Show no sense of ownership.

Another way is to develop offensive behavior like
1. Be vocal about your rights, speak up.
2. Bypass authority and channels.
3. Work hard to prove your mettle.
4. Be mercurial.
5. Incite others.
6. Backbite your manager.

7. Work on your skills.

However, both behaviors are extremes. It is advisable to choose your strategy depending on the manager's rank in the hierarchy. A possible middle path could be:
1. Diversify your talent or source.
2. Work on your skills but do not make them public.
3. Build your network.
4. Speak up but use your words judiciously.
5. Create your importance in the office.
6. Look for other jobs. 

One can see all sorts of employee-manager relationships in the government as well as  private sector. Such situation demands lot of prudence from the managers. In government jobs, Employee's first reaction develop the avoidance behavior however in private sector employee's first reaction is to develop offensive or middle path.