The Little Mermaid Reflection

the company to work on the film ‘The Little Mermaid’. Peter Schneider knew Ashman from previous work within the theatre. Ashman helped to compose music for the film and produced an exciting environment for the creative team. Ashman possessed both expert and referent power when managing the team. He possessed expert power due to his previous work within theatre and the expertise he shows in that field. Referent power was also a base of power, which Ashman held because of how inspired by music he was. The creatives saw Ashman as someone to look up to in a way due to this. Both of these notions of power created respect from the creative team, as Ashman was a fellow creative meaning he was able to work alongside the team and make his management

Katzenberg wanted the film to make big money and hit the box office and he did not think this would happen due to the audience’s reaction. Katzenberg was clearly quite corporately or commercially driven and this impacted not only the creative team who made the film but everyone else as well. Resistance played a huge role in this event as the number of people resisting Katzenberg overpowered him. Creative people are intrinsically motivated and are not concerned by the money side of the industry therefor they resisted Katzenberg’s request to cut the

The three main men within the organisation Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Eisner and Roy E. Disney show many notions of power during this section of the documentary which helps to analyse the management worker relationships within the company and the impacts these notions of power have on the creative team. At the unfinished screening of the film, there was excitement as the company could see that the film was going to be successful due to the audience’s reaction. During the cast and crew speeches for the film, Katzenberg tried to take a lot of the credit for the film and promote himself. Roy E. Disney also tried to do this and the two competed against each other trying to take ownership for something they did not create. At this point in the screening, Roy E. Disney’s and Katzenberg’s legitimate power allowed them to overrule the creative team in order to take credit for the work they hadn’t actually done. The people in power dictated and actually undermined the creative team and the hard work they had put into making ‘Beauty and the Beast’. As well as this Disney and Eisner went behind Katzenberg’s back and built a new animation studio on the Walt Disney Productions lot. By not telling Katzenberg about the animation studio before the cast and crew speeches, Eisner and