In Good Company Movie Presentation

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In Good Company 1. INTRODUCTION In Good Company is a comedy, drama, romance movie that was released in 2004. This movie commences with Waterman Publishing and its flagship magazine Sports America being acquired by Globecom International in a corporate takeover. Dan Foreman who is middle aged and experienced has spent 20 years in his profession and was head of advertising sales for Sports America. He is happily married, has two teenaged daughters and is expecting a new child. During the acquisition, Dan was demoted to second in command of advertising and was replaced by Carter Duryea. Carter is a newly wed of 7months and was dumped by his wife just as he gets his promotion. Carter is half Dan’s age 26 to be exact. He talks a good game about sales but he has no practical experience in the field. During the movie a number of leadership and Organizational Behavior (OB) concepts came about: organizational structure, politics, teams, emotions, change, culture, communication and values. Robbins and Judge (2007) defined leadership as “the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals”. According to Kotter (1988) “the requirement for leadership includes some things that are very situation-specific and that tend to take time to develop”. Three leadership theories that will be further discussed are: 1Contingency theory 2.Behavioural theory and 3. Transformational leadership theory. 2. 1st THEORY- Contingency Theory This theory is based on the belief that there is no single style of leadership appropriate to all situations (Mullins 2005). The leader's effectiveness depends on how well the leader's style fits the context. The dictionary of business and management makes similar The major contingency models of leadership include: 1.favourability of leadership situation (Fiedler’s model) a) leader- member relations: the

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