ATW 251 - Frozen - The Devil Wears Prada Slides

This movie focuses on the personal and professional life about a young journalist Andrea Sachs, who scores a job as a junior assistant of the chief editor of Runway, a famous fashion Magazine The greatest point that happens in Andrea’s life is when she realizes that her position as Miranda’s assistant only makes her life becomes miserable and she decides to quit from the job. She knows that this job has changed all of her life style and realizes that this job is very great and she can use all of the branded things and meet famous people, but she knows that that are not what she wants in her life. After the decision to quit from the job, she tries to work as a journalist at other company.

DIVERSITY  Main issue about diversity in gender  Characters of Miranda and Andrea symbolize two different societal models of female power  Working women strong roles as the character of Miranda.  Women is more career-oriented & plays the roles for the movie. ATTITUDE  Evaluation statements or judgment toward something like object, people or event.  Job Satisfaction - Andy satisfy with her new job although she faces a lot of challenges to respond Miranda’s request.  Organizational commitment - all employee in the office doing their job to ensure Miranda satisfy with their jobs.

 Machiavellianism  Miranda is an excellent example of a high Machiavellianism.  Andrea scores low in Machiavellianism.

 The Big Five Personality Theory  Miranda is as an introvert, a high conscientious person, has high emotional stability but low in agreeableness and openness to experience.  Andrea scores moderately on extraversion and neuroticism and achieve a high score on agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience.

 Miranda’s tyrannical leadership style  Undermines motivation, job satisfaction of the employees, without necessarily being clearly destructive concerning the organizational goals.

 Autocratic and commanding  No repetitions of orders  No chances for subordinates to question  No excuses of unable to fulfill demands

 Mean and subordinates are working in fear  Emily was shocked when she knows that Miranda was on the way to the office  Nigel informed all the employees to gird their loins.  The whole runway then engaged in following the specific rules such as cabin arrangement, putting on makeup, wearing high heels  Emily putting books and filling a glass of water on Miranda’s table.

WORK INCIVILITY  Disrespectful treatment, including behaving in an aggressive manner, interrupting the person, or ignoring his or her opinions.  Andrea is being teased for her clothing for the first few weeks.  Andrea also faces harassment from Miranda, she was also being called as fat. HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT  Entire movie has aspects of HR perspectives  Ranges from branding, recruiting, creating HR policies, employee engagement, management dysfunction, succession planning, leadership, mentorship as well as work-life balance.

 Top management team should have succession planning.  CEO in “Runway” organization fails to do so as reflected in the event of replacing Miranda’s position.

EMOTIONS & MOODS  Miranda does not care about the emotions and moods of her employees at all.  Nigel is emotionally involves in his job and can be classified as emotional labor  Quite shocked when he was not announced for promotion.  He controls his emotion and continues smiling.

MOTIVATION  Contrast between motivation to go to work for Emily and Andrea.  Emily is really engaged with her job as Miranda’s assistant.  Results in low absenteeism, turnover and high performance.

 Andrea’s only motivation to stay working for Miranda could be to prove herself to Miranda that she is capable of performing tasks – Self Efficacy Theory

POWER & POLITITES  Miranda maintains her distance with her coworkers  Expects Andrea to be on call all the time  Miranda words are so powerful that it could get anyone a job anywhere. CULTURE  As Runway is a fashion magazine, it expects the employees to be fashionable and dress glamorously  Every female employee has to wear high heels and looks classy.  Miranda, Emily and Nigel have teased Andrea for her poor sense of fashion.  Andrea managed to get Nigel’s help in transforming her old-fashioned dressing to fashionable and trendy clothes  She managed to impress her coworkers, get attention and noticed by Miranda.

 Utmost importance to know about the culture so that employees can adapt well in that organization  Andrea had difficulty in fitting herself into the crowd. Everyone made fun of her clothing.  Andrea refused to integrate her into the corporate culture  Andrea also fails to understand the organization culture when Miranda scolded her for calling fashion “this stuff”.  thorough understanding of company culture is essential  prove that employees are knowledgeable about the industry and their own firm.  Benefit when dealing with the customers and suppliers as their confidence level towards the company will be increased.

 Leaders should be task-oriented as well as maintaining a good relationship with employees in order to be more effective in achieving the organizational goals  Miranda is task-oriented and is perceived as mean by her subordinates  Miranda harassed her subordinates when she thinks that they are not on the same page as her.  Miranda should change her leadership style in fostering a good relationship among her subordinates  She also should pay attention to the employees’ well-being and job satisfaction  job satisfaction plays a vital role in employees’ productivity and achievements in tasks given to them.

 Both Andrea and Miranda had step on their coworkers in order to be successful and speed forward  Andrea was offered by Miranda to go to fashion week in Paris with her, as she wants the best team for the trip.  At first Andrea declined the proposal, as she knew that Emily has been dying to go to the show.  Andrea worried that she will lose her job so she accepted the offer.  Andrea should reject the offer as she is doing it against her will and principle

 Miranda selects her enemy, Jacqueline to be the president of new designer company.  Nigel is supposed to be the president but because Miranda wants to secure her job, she bypasses Nigel for promotion.  Miranda should have told Nigel beforehand to avoid any misunderstandings.

 We have to balance our personal life and work life in order to ensure that we do not have any trouble relationship with other.  Andrea focuses more on her job until she forgets about her family, boyfriend and friends.  When she has dinner with her father, she has to answer Miranda’s phone call.  Andrea misses Nate’s birthday party as she has to work

 A boss should understand the employee’s life and should separate the personal life and professional life  An individual also can create a rule with the boss such as there is no job when during family time or social activities time and no working time on off days.

 Many people thought that getting an amazing job would make them happy  Andrea thought that she’s going to be okay with the job and get through it after a while. She is kind of ignoring her personal life just to fulfill her duties.  Day by day she turned into someone she used to hate before.  From outsiders view, the job you have might seem like a dream come true.  Just because a million girls would kill for that job doesn’t mean you’re necessarily one of them.  Therefore, when applying for a job, think of the advantages and disadvantages carefully.

This movie teaches us that we should build better rapport with our supervisors. It provides us motivation to focus in work and indirectly lead to better performance. This movie also makes us understand that we should not step on others to get ahead. Another important lesson in this movie is that we must learn to walk away when we realize the job is different from what we expect for and not in the way we want it to be. A major issue in this movie is the leadership style. It is obvious that Andrea’s boss, Miranda is a cold and harsh leader. She wants everyone to obey the way she works. A good manager who is approachable, considerate and appreciative is required in a successful organization. A true leader earns respect from employees.