Organizational Behavrio: 9 to 5 Movie Analysis

At start of the movie, one of the black employees in the organization says that he hates his job and has never been promoted despite constant efforts to maximize his productivity. Too many rules and regulations were introduced in the workplace, “office that looks efficient is efficient.” Women don’t get promotion to top level easily, violet had been working since last 12 years but her trainee got promoted faster than she did because the trainee was male. According to Mr. Hart teamwork experience is learned from the game of football, since women don’t play football they are unaware of how to work in a team, this reflected negatively amongst many employees and Violet’s temper increased day-by-day, she told Mr. Hart’s assistant when she was assigned a task to deliver few paper, “I know exactly where to stick it up,” indicating her frustrations towards work.
Mr. Hart purposely threw pencil case down when his assistant was writing a letter, he wanted her to bend so he could she her cleavage. He was a flirt and took the best advantage of his higher position. He later pretended to help her by helping her pick few pencil of the floor trying to show that he actually cared, his intentions were to impress her and make her indulged in sexual relationships with him. However he did have feelings for Doralee and was not strictly for sexual pleasure, not that they ever indulged in one.
Violet, “playing it safe” when Hart presented her idea to the president of the company without giving her any credits, she dint react immediately because she wanted the promotion that only Hart could provide. Later Bob gets promoted and not her, “clients like to deal with men,” increasing her frustrations towards Mr. Hart. Her relationship with her son is unique in comparison to most of the relationship that mother and child hold. She is open about smoking joints with and in front of her son; in fact her son rolled a joint for her so she would calm down from workplace frustrations. Violet