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'a Few Good Men' in Relation with Organizational Behaviour
A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
(Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore)

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Section 1.0 Movie in Relation with Organizational Behaviour

1.1 Milgram Experiment 7

1.2 Principles of Delegation of Authority 9

1.3 Flaws of Leadership 11

Section 2.0 Movie Analysis

2.1 Character Analysis 14

2.1.1 Lt.Daniel Kaffee 14

2.1.2 Col. Nathan R. Jessep 15

2.1.3 Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway 16

2.2 Dialogue Analysis 17

Section 3.0 Conclusion

3.1 Summary 19

3.2 Bibliography 20

Introduction

A Few Good Men, directed by Rob Reiner, was released worldwide on 11the December 1992. It is produced by David Brown and Andrew Scheinman. It's running time is 130 minutes and is rated R (for language)

The cast includes Tom Cruise (Lt. Daniel Kaffee), Jack Nicholson (Col. Nathan R. Jessep), Demi Moore (Lt. Cdr JoAnne Galloway) and Kevin Bacon (Capt. Jack Ross).

The story revolves around a murder case on the basis of Code Red, which was basically an order by Colonel to his two officers, Wolfgang Bodison (Cpl Harold W. Dawson) and James Marshall (Pfc Louden Downey). After the murder of Santiago they both are shifted to Washington DC and then, Tom Cruise along with Demi Moore and Kevin Pollak (a friend and research colleague) fights their case.
Section 1.0

Movie in relation with Organizational Behaviour

1.1 Milgram Experiment

A few good men is a very good example of Milgram's Experiment.

According to Milgram "ordinary decent, people, acting within an organizational hierarchy will unquestiongly perform appalling actions." and after watching this movie Milgram's statement seems to be quite true. In the movie the junior officers believed that it was their duty to obey the orders given to them by their senior



Bibliography: All the information written in this report is strictly self-made (based on the movie). There is no copy work in this report. All the pictures (not visible here) have been downloaded from the following sites: www.moviegoods.com www.allstarz.org Therefore they can be seen or downloaded from these sites.

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