JW elders are the enforcers of doctrines created by the top GB members, they watch over individual members of their congregation to their social behavior, down to how people dress, hair length for men, their education, their friends and associations, their participation in the JWS activity such as service and talks.
In essence they instruct people toward how the GB men want them look and behave in subservience to those men.
The Watchtower Corporation is and always has been a lying corrupt religious publishing house and the people who are have been lured to the organization are its designated public sales representatives ( Jehovah's Witnesses )