It is a case study on Leader and Leadership based on the movie twelve angry men,...
Assignment Behavior-II”
“Organization
12 Angry men – Find & Study the behavior of the ‘Leader’ among 12 main Characters of Movie.
Submitted by: Kanhaiya Gupta Rashmi Bokolial
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PGDIM, NMIMS Date 18, Dec, 2008
About the Movie There are total 12 main characters in the movie who are gathered to take a decision collectively. The issue was whether ‘the boy’, who was suspected for his father murder, was guilty or not? Characters were not Professional to examine such cases of Law & Enforcement, they all were common men selected as judiciary and were heavily influenced from their own Likes, dislikes, prejudices, perceptions, emotions, priorities & stereotyping. Movie revolves around one decision that weather that boy was guilty or not? All of them except one (the seventh chair person), were in favor of the boy as ‘the guilty’ of murder. But one strong and logical opposition based on cause & effect, logical reasons and patience (not on emotions) converts all of them in favor of the boy as ‘not guilty’.
About Leader and Leadership
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What drives the performance is behavior, not personality, says Robin Stuart-Kotze in ‘Performance: The secret of successful behavior1’. Personality is what you are; behavior is what you do, and it’s ‘what’ you do makes a difference. Yet it is the personality that gets the headlines because people would like to find ‘a secret key to success that does not require work & effort’. You don’t have to be at the top to be a leader. Leadership takes place everywhere, at every level. Once you understand that leadership is about performance improvement-getting things done well, done better, done faster, done on time, done reliablyyou realize that everyone in an organization has a leadership role to play.
Leader of the Judiciary Team- as per my view The seventh chair-person can be considered as the Leader of the Team, because of the following reason:
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His behavior was quite calm and relatively uniform throughout the whole session and as Winston Churchill had said that “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”, similarly the attitude was something which made a big difference in his personality from others.
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He had the ability to influence others very much, and hence at last he had converted the rigid decisions of all others in to his favor.
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As a leader he was one who wants to discuss the whole matter in detail very rationally before taking any decision, he was idea seeker and wants to be more rational, honest and logical.
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He was very sharp with his mind and hence used his intelligence as power to influence, manipulate, negotiate and dominate others.
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He can be considered as ‘the initiator’ of the whole discussion otherwise others have already (in very starting of the discussion)decided that the boy was guilty which was highly influenced from their own personal prejudices, stereotyping and emotions without any conscious and logical reason.
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He had taken the issue very seriously; because it was the matter of the life and death of someone, but others had taken the case very casually. For a leader either issue is small or big it must be taken very seriously.
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He was very independent of his thought and felt free to raise and seek new alternative/ idea. For this purpose he had raised various valid and logical points which compelled others to think and response for same which again given some other clue and so on.
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As Rudyard Kipling believed an important virtue for becoming a mature adult is to keep you head when all
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around you are loosing theirs. He was matured and had courage to face the opposition of all other members when all others’ are loosing their heads.
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He was one who listen and supports (if required) others’ views, and try to find each single clue/alternative out of ones given idea to reach the goal.
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He created the interest with his questions and clues of cause and effect among all (most of them are not really interested and serious to the issue) to discuss the issue rationally.
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Throughout the whole discussion he was very calm, patient and logical and not influenced from his or other’s emotions (such as anger). People behaved very harsh with him, in spite of all these obstacles he was very focused towards his goal. It shows his balanced personality traits with right behavior and attitude.
And at last he found that the boy was really not guilty, and to arrive at this decision he used every idea and clue from himself as well as from others, so we can call this a group effort in spite of no/less willingness of other members, no expertise among them for such cases and a lot trauma and drama of anger in between the discussion. So, now we can consider him as the Leader of the judiciary team.
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