Every single character in the “Office Space” movie depicts various stereotypes you can find in the workplace. These characters are both simplified and exaggerated as we can see in the opening scene with Peter Gibbons‚ a businessman‚ stuck in the morning traffic going to work. He looks unhappy and depressed. He is frustrated as he is barely driving and as this old guy walking on the side walk is even going faster than him. He tries to escape from the traffic as he sees the other lane moving faster
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The film Office space mainly focuses around Peter Gibbons‚ an employee in the Initech Company‚ his boss Bill Lumbergh has hired two consultants to downsize the company through firing some of the workers. Peter and his two engineer best friends‚ Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton‚ hate their jobs and everything that involves the work‚ which includes filling out useless forms‚ getting told of by eight managers as well as using faulty unproductive office equipment. Peter has a cheating girlfriend
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I/O PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MOVIE OFFICE SPACE Introduction Most movies are a reflection of society and the type of interpersonal interactions that shape human lives‚ although they are typically revamped to fit a certain genre. In the movie Office Space‚ the satirical twist is on the human experience of the work environment. It is a comical depiction of how coworkers interact with each other and how they endure stressful job-related situations that we can all relate to. There are psychological concepts
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March 27‚ 2011 Gung-Ho And Office Space: How NOT To Manage Chapter 1 of James C. McCroskey’s “Organizational Communication for Survival” states that “some people believe ‘competent communication’ is ‘competent communication’ no matter where it is practiced”. (1) I believe this to be entirely untrue. Subordinate to subordinate communication differs greatly from subordinate to supervisor communication. As is true for different cultures communicating. In the movies “Office Space” and “Gung-Ho” we see two
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AbstractThere are four major influences that can impact an organization’s structure. With the movie Office Space as an example‚ the way employees handle change‚ paradigms‚ power‚ and politics will be analyzed. Theories will be cited of what techniques can be initiated to ensure effective organizational management and behavior. Office Space is a great example of irrational management and bizarre human behavior. The executives at the fictitious company in the movie‚ Initech‚ do not demonstrate successful
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This paper discusses the film “Office Space” featuring Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons who is an average white -collar type of employee working for a software company called Initech (Judge‚ 1999). Peter Gibbons and his fellow co-workers loathe working at Initech‚ and Peter hates his boss Bill Lumbergh‚ most of all. After being convinced to go to hypnotherapy by his girlfriend‚ Peter gets stuck in a trance like state after the hypnotherapist suffers a heart attack and fails to snap Peter out of
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The Office is a great piece of text because Michael Scott completely disregards and societal rules for how one is supposed to act in the workplace. White and blue collar employees are supposed to act certain ways and the regional manager of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin completely disregards said rules. Michael Scott may dress correctly for the workplace‚ but that is about it as he acts more like a child than a man‚ he constantly makes “that’s what she said jokes”‚ and has many alter egos
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Study of Open Work Space at an Innovative Company Angela Dobrzelewski Professor Schraufnagle WRA 130 Section 8 10 April 2014 The Study Recently in the work space‚ there seems to be a shift from this traditional cubicle style to a more open environment for the employees. This shift has me questioning why are innovative companies shifting towards this more open environment? It seems that these companies are looking not only for a change in scenery‚ but a change in the how there employees
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Office Space: Report‚ Group 35 1.) With reference to specific examples from the film‚ critically reflect on how Office Space illustrates tensions in the wage and effort bargain between management and workers. The purpose of this question is to illustrate tensions in the wage and effort bargain between management and workers‚ more specifically‚ the wage and effort bargain issues that arise in the film Office Space. Throughout this essay we will discuss the theory behind the wage effort bargain
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OFFICE SPACE Office Space shows the reality of many peoples work‚ unhappy and discouraged persons that are not treated the way they should or simply don get pay fairly for their work. In addition‚ there is a minor phenomenon and is that an employee who is not happy with his work will be inefficient‚ try not to continue in that work and may even not have good intentions with the company. The film tells the amazing change that occurs overnight in the life of the Peter Gibbons‚ after a hypnosis session
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