Topic – Motivation
Movie Title- Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie Title- Glengarry Glen Ross
Movie Summary - This is a scene from a 1992 movie 'Glengarry Glen Ross'. Blake played by Alec Baldwin is sent by the corporate office to motivate the real estate salesmen to win in a competition where the third prize and below are fired. The team of salesmen turn on each other and themselves while scrambling to keeps their jobs. This indirectly pushes an employees to commit robbery.
Concepts - In this clip we can see that Blake played by Alec Baldwin motivates his employees by verbal abuse and threat about lose of job. Teams can be motivated both by positive and negative means. Both types of motivation can drive teams to achieve the intended target or goal. Motivating teams by threat has been used since ages. Alexander used force or threat of life to motivate his army march along with him on his conquests. Threats can result in desired effect for the company but the down turn is that it results in high dis-satisfaction and turn over rates.
1 comment:
Well that’s certainly a way to motivate. I doubt motivating with fear and intimidation would last very long. I have not watched the whole movie but reading from the summary it makes people do desperate things to keep their jobs. Motivating with fear leads the group to work against each other and not collectively together for a common goal. So wouldn’t it defeat the purpose of this motivating speech for the sales team? It would lead to a faster burnout and resentment. I would guess that most people would not be ok in that kind of situations.
For me, I’d rather quit than work there, but it’s easy to say on the outside looking in. I’ve been in a situation where I had a not very pleasant supervisor. He was just rude and strict in situations where he didn’t need to be. I sat there fearful of making a mistake. I couldn’t wait to get out, but I ended up being afraid to leave as well. I ended up sticking around for a year. Go figure. My friend actually was the lucky one and got a transfer to another dept.
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