Organizational Behaviors And Leadership Theories In Nanny Mcphee

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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIORS AND LEADERSHIP THEORIES IN NANNY MCPHEE Organizational Behaviors and Leadership Theories in Nanny McPhee Sandi Roberts Organization Behavior in Health Care HS 408 University of Mississippi Medical Center Abstract Nanny McPhee is a children’s movie in which the Brown family is totally disorganized. Nanny Mcphee uses her own magic in getting this group organized. In the movie we see interpersonal conflicts and the children using group thinking. I will show how the movie shows attitudes and perceptions, motivation, levels of power and influence. We see how individuals react to stress. Nanny McPhee changes the whole family dynamic with an authoritarian style of leadership. In this paper will explain leadership theories as well as other organizational behaviors. Organizational Behaviors and Leadership Theories in Nanny McPhee I chose to evaluate the movie Nanny McPhee. It is a story of a widowed father with seven children. Typically with several children, one would have one or two that could be labeled problem children, but all seven of Mr. Brown’s children were unruly. Mr. Brown has tried seventeen different nannies as he was trying to find a replacement for the children’s mother. mother. Then there was Nanny McPhee with her five lessons that she would teach the children. I will discuss organizational behaviors and leadership theories that I observed while watching the movie. I will begin in the beginning with the seventeenth nanny running away from the house to find Mr. Brown while screaming that the children have eaten the baby. (Doran & Jones, 2006) Group Dynamics The Brown children have banded together to deliberately sabotage the attempts of their father to replace their recently deceased mother with a nanny. (Doran & Jones, 2006) They have formed a group. Borkowski (2005) states that groups

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