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 Andreas life is when she realizes that
her position as Mirandas 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 Mirandas 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.
Mirandas 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
Mirandas 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 Mirandas 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 Mirandas assistant.
Results in low absenteeism, turnover and high performance.
Andreas 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 Nigels 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 Mirandas
phone call.
Andrea misses Nates birthday party as she has to work
A boss should understand the employees 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 shes 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 doesnt
mean youre 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
Andreas 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.