Shortly after graduating, Andrea Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway) is hired as the second assistant to the powerful Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). With the dream of becoming a journalist, and no knowledge about fashion and style, Andrea tries to adjust to her new job. Miranda's first assistant, Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) gives her advice and protocol on how to survive the harsh environments of the business and their boss while Nigel (Stanley Tucci) teaches her how to dress more appropriately for their business environment. Andrea begins to change her attitude and the way she acts according to her job, these changes end up affecting her personal life and cause problems with her boyfriend Nate (Adrian Grenier) and best friend Lily. This helps …show more content…
This type of leadership style can (as seen in the movie) be very problematic, especially in the case of Miranda where she gives her staff very vague instructions on unrealistic tasks. This leaves the staff in the movie unaware of their job tasks, resentment between the employees and poor communication and management such as this can be very detrimental to a business. An example of Miranda's autocratic leadership style in the film is when Miranda shares her views and gives out instructions to her staff during a meeting and her staff is then required to implement and follow her instructions with no input in the …show more content…
In the film, the first thing Andrea does on her first day of work is go straight to her desk and is given instructions without any training or knowledge of her job. Businesses also need to hold interviews with future possible employees before hiring people to ensure the people they are capable and qualified workers. Both Miranda and Andrea showed unprofessional behaviour during Andrea’s job interview. Not only was Andrea unprepared for her interview but she had also never even heard of Runway Magazine before that day (the magazine in which she was applying for a job at). Miranda was unprofessional during the interview as well as she barely listened to anything Andrea had to say, she let Andrea be interrupted midsentence by Nigel and she made rude remarks about Andreas
Mariet Mankiev English IV Ms.Ellis September 16,2015 1. “Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever”,(Doerr 48–49) When Jutta and Werner are sitting by the radio,the Frenchman ends his forecast by saying this. Werner tries to escape the real world with Hitler’s influence by listening to the radio that he and his sister found. This quote is a reoccurring theme throughout the story.
Evan King Mrs. Madis English 12-2 14 January 2015 Making Something Out Of Nothing Making the most out of life is hard, especially life as a poor child in Ireland would have kept most people from reaching their goals in life but not for Frank McCourt, did not play into the stereotypes of many poor Irish people of that time. In the Memoir Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt Frank has to persevere through much adversity in his not so desirable life as a poor Irish boy with a drunk for a father who could not provide for Frank and his family. Frank must get a job at a young age in order to bring in the money that his father Malachy drinks away, when he finally has money and moves to America, and when he eventually becomes a teacher even with all of his bad experiences as a child in school.
Without consulting Harvey, David defined Paula’s responsibilities and provided her direction. David had an autocratic leadership style, which is defined as a leader that makes decisions without consulting their team members (Mind Tools, 2016). By taking this type of approach, it caused friction between Paula and Harvey. David would have created better results, and fostered collaboration between Harvey and Paula if he would have consulted Harvey to help define the objectives for the plant. Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which a leader encourages a team to pursue objectives. The leader sets the tone and leads the group or teams to success (CSU Global,
Growing up in Limerick, in his memoir Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt describes the continuing difficulties The McCourt’s face in 1930’s with World War II going into motion after in the early 1940s. Frankie goes through many changes as he progresses through his childhood. He is enrolled in Catholic school, with many rigorous Headmasters with a seemingly sole purpose of belittling the students. To get ready for confirmation Frank is forced to join the Confraternity, a brotherhood group that all the boys must join in preparation for confirmation. Frank becomes friends with Paddy clohessy and they get into many forms of mischief for a time. Through his younger years he falls ill of serious illnesses that complicates things
How does one achieve happiness? Money? Love? Being oneself? Brave New World consists of only 3 different ways to achieve happiness. Each character of the brave new world will have his or her different opinion of the right way to achieve happiness. In his novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley explains many people achieve happiness through the World State’s motto – “community, identity, stability”, soma, and conditioning.
STYLES OF LEADERSHIP An autocratic leadership style is one where the manager sets objectives, allocates tasks, and insists on obedience. Therefore the group becomes dependent on him or her. The result of this style is the members of the group are often dissatisfied with the leader. This results in little cohesion, the need for high levels of supervision, and poor levels of motivation amongst employees. A democratic leadership style encourages participation in decision making.
The film opens up with Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda) showing up for her first day of work. It is quickly shown that this is her first job and she comes off as very naïve and scared. She was married and never had to have a job until her husband left her for his secretary. She seems to want to win him back so she decides to enter the workforce and also become a secretary. Judy meets Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin). She has worked for the company for over 12 years and made it to the supervisor of her department. However, she can’t
This style has been defined as ( Abdicates responsibilities avoid making decisions)(Robbins 2001). That would mean leaders are not involved in taking decisions at all and they are available only to provide their employees with materials and answering questions, the subordinates have complete freedom to take decisions and set objectives (Chaudhry and Husnain 2012). In other words, this theory lacks any kind on powerful leadership. Hence, there would be lack of motivation, low levels of performance, and poor work practices(Packard 2009). However, if the employees are already motivated and have full understanding and high level of knowledge regarding the mission at hand, Lassies- Faire model might works fine (Gustainis and Roosevelt 2004) .
The extreme leadership style of the Authoritarian can have a negative effect on team members. A characteristic of this leader is one who makes all the decisions and passes the directives to subordinates who are expected to carry these out under very close supervision. Because open communication is vital to any project, these perceptions can hurt team performance.
However, his leadership styles can have a negative impact on the employees such as uncertain if they are doing the right thing, sometimes employees can be too confident in themselves that they do the job inappropriately and sometimes when the leader trusts them a lot they do not feel pressured to perform their task. They might take too much time for one task as stated in Owen (2006).
On June 11, 2004, the former prime minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher delivered a eulogy in honor of former president Ronald Reagan, she declares Reagan as a great man and president. Thatcher develops her ideas by analyzing all he has done using parallelism, repetition, and ethos. Using Reagan’s accomplishments and personal experiences, she amplifies how great of a man he was in order to make the nation comprehend what Reagan did. Thatcher opens her eulogy with “We have lost a great president,” indicating that the speech she gives with apologetic and heartfelt tone is not only to the American people, but to everyone else.
Autocratic leadership theory is a part of the behavioural approach. In this leadership theory, leader makes all decisions and uses power to command and control the followers to achieve goal. According to Lewin(1939), “autocratic leaders are associated with high-performing groups, but that close supervision is necessary and feeling of hostility are often present” (p.173). It is incredibly efficient and tasks are completed quickly. Autocratic leadership can be beneficial when decisions need to be making quickly. For example, in emergency situation surgeon uses this theory because the patient’s situation is between life and death and there is no time to discuss with other members. Bass (2008) mentioned in the Leadership styles and theories article, “Autocratic leaders can be effective because they create good structure, and determine what needs to be done. They provide rewards for compliance, but punish disobedience” (Giltinane, 2013, p. 35-37).
...esearch of the situation. This leadership style is beneficial in situations where a quick decision is necessary. The downside to this type of leadership is people who tend to use an autocratic leadership style are seen as controlling and dictatorial. This type of behavior can lead to resentment with the other group members.
Within leadership, there is the opportunity for many issues in itself. Leadership styles and practices, one of the most vital aspects determining productivity in organizations, is truly what sets the standard for every level of management within a company. If a proper leadership style is not chosen and followed to lead a team within an organization, there will be no one to follow and the team will certainly not be successful. The repercussions of poor leadership will certainly make a drastic difference in a company. This can include the needs of not only employees, but
The Devil Wears Prada movie showcases an autocratic leadership style in Miranda Priestly, the Editor of the fictitious Runway magazine. The movie begins with the hopeful and naive graduate student interviewing for a much coveted position as Miranda Priestley’s 2nd Assistant. This highly regarded position was within a fast paced and competitive organization and unfortunately, before our main character, Andrea, could be selected for the job she needed to run the obstacle course of the self-serving and somewhat indifferent leadership style of the 1st Assistant, Emily. In this plot, there are a multitude of leadership styles and characteristics that are identifiable throughout the movie displayed both by Miranda and her second assistant