Monday, October 22, 2007

Glengarry Glen Ross

I missed the Glengarry Glen Ross play but I did have the opportunity to see the movie that featured Kevin Spacey and Ed Harris. The movie really showed that many individuals get lost and conform to the morals of the company in which they are working for. In the business setting of Glengarry Glen Ross, the employees were motivated based on fear due to the message delivered by management. They were ridiculed for their salaries, forced to compete for a prize and threatened with their jobs based on their performance. As each were put into desperate measures, scrambling to meet the unrealistic expectations of management, they began to act on the mentality of survival. Instead of working as a team, they were all forced to compete with one another which resulted in deceit, lying and cheating. Poor ethics began with management and then made its impression on the employees which would ultimately affect the customer. Poor judgment is a continuous cycle that is fueled by unfair scenarios and self gratification. If there was a quote that I would use to describe this movie and company environments with the same mentality is that, "you reap what you sow," in that all will come back to you in the same way that you approached the situation.

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