Concept Paper

Introduction
Organizational behavior concepts are relevant not only in the workplace setting alone, but can also be applied to almost all things and setting that we encounter throughout our lives. They can also be found in popular media, such as literature, popular music, movies and cartoons. The Art Imitates Life Project exposed our group to understand the pervasiveness artist, directors, and authors create when inspired by life and the world around them. We were able to analyze these media and depict which organizational behavior concepts applied to each. Our group selected to convey OB concepts from: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (literature), Dilbert (cartoon), “Get Back Up”-T.I. feat Chris Brown (song), and The Lion King (movie). From the media selected, we specifically focused on the organizational behavior concepts of personalities and teamwork, motivation, affect, emotions and influence and power.
Description of Media and Concepts
Literature: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, by Paul Heins (translated by Brothers Grimm): Personalities, Motivation & Self-Concept The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, by Paul Heins, depicted some of the many different elements of Organizational Behavior (OB). From the different personalities of the seven dwarfs, to the self-concept the evil queen holds of herself, each page of the story of Snow White holds an OB concept, and also describes each one of the levels of analysis related to OB. The Evil Queen demonstrated the individual level of analysis, the Dwarfs showed group analysis, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, together showed an analysis of the organization. To be the fairest in all the land was a goal of the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White was growing into a gorgeous little girl and the queen could not have that. The beauty of Snow White was a motivation to the Queen to get rid of her. As the story unfolded, the Evil Queen tried on three separate occasions to kill Snow