Organisational Analysis

Project description
Achievement substantially above the threshold level of attainment at level 2 indicated by a comprehensive
knowledge of the underlying concepts and principles associated with their subject area. An excellent ability
to critically understand the well-established principles of their subject areas. An excellent ability to
understand the way in which those principles have developed an ability to apply underlying concepts and
principles outside the context in which they were first studied, including, where appropriate, the application
of those principles in an employment context. An excellent knowledge of the main methods of enquiry in
the subject(s) relevant to the named award, and an excellent ability to evaluate critically the appropriateness
of different approaches to solving problems in the field of study. An excellent appreciation of the limits of
their knowledge, and how this influences analyses and interpretations based on that knowledge. An
excellent ability to use a range of established techniques to initiate and undertake critical analysis of
information, and to propose solutions to problems arising from that analysis. An excellent ability to
effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms to specialist and nonspecialist
audiences, and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively.
In her 2008 book Reading Management and Organization in Film, Professor Emma Bell suggests that film can provide a powerful tool for doing organisational analysis.

As Bell argues:
While business school curricula, traditional case studies and textbooks tend to emphasize the rationality and order associated with organization, film draws attention to the embodied, personal and emotional nature of organizational life, showing such things as sex, romance, violence, power struggles and the consequences of success and failure, alerting students to the irrational, overlooked, hidden and disorderly aspects of organizational life. Moreover, by offering a rich source of documentary and dramatic material, film enables a vicarious experience for the viewer which acts as a substitute for personal experience and so provides a ‘safe’ way of learning what it feels like to work in an organization at different historical moments and in different cultural contexts.
Bell (2008: 1)

Coursework Task:
1. Select and watch a film of your choosing in which organisations and/or processes of organising are represented in some way.

** Please Note: The film you select can be anything you like so long as it is a publically available motion picture and NOT another form of popular culture or video entertainment such as a television programme, internet clip, book, computer game, or home movie. Your choice of film can be from any country, from any time period, and in any language.

2. Select at least two of the following module themes to describe and analyse your chosen film (you may select more than two if you wish):
• Structure
• Culture
• Power
• Language (or discourse)
• Space
• Technology
• Sexuality (or gender)
• Identity

3. Write a 2000 word essay (fully referenced and correctly formatted) in response to the following question:

What does your film have to teach us about the nature of ‘organisation’ and the challenges of living and working in an organisational world?
the film that I choose is “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)”

What does your film have to teach us about the nature of ‘organisation’ and the challenges of living and working in an organisational world?
– film chosen is charlie and the chocolate factory