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Name: Jie Wang

Class: CAS 100B

Date: 12/12/16

Film paper analysis

Group Background

Yes, would call the Breakfast Club a film that depicts a team. According to Billsberry (2012), the Breakfast Club is a film which shows students who have been punished for wrongdoing and unite together to show they were punished unfairly. The five members are brought for punishment in a stay in the period in the library from morning to evening. The five members are John Bender, Claire Standish, Andrew Clarke, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds. The five students were schoolmates thought they hardly knew each other and it was going to be a challenging team. Forming stage involves bringing the group members together. The Breakfast Club' saw their bad behavior earn them punishment. They were being detained from 7 am to 4 pm as a form of punishment. The group brought together five members.

Storming is the second phase where conflicts start revealing itself. The varying behavior creates conflict among the group members. Daft (2006) stated that Andrew is a state champion wrestler; Brian is a bookish person, Claire is a pampered, and beautiful lady and Alison is recursive outcasts. John teases Andrew. Brian harasses Claire. Norming sees group socializing. The members start opening up. Andrew has low esteem; Alison is a liar; Claire is a virgin, John is a victim of abuse. And Brian is suicidal The members have a strained relationship with their parents. Performing involves realizing achievements of the group. The members start being friendly. Alison and Claire makeover. Claire and John; and Alison and Andrew start a romantic relationship. Brian offers to do an assignment for all the members for they realize Vernon had been unfair to them.

Group Roles

Brian performs task-oriented roles in the group. Brian is the informed person in the group (Morgan, 2009). He knows where to find the emergency exit in the library and shows the other members where to find it. Brian’s decides to save the group from further punishment by Vernon by deciding to do the assignments. He knows by doing quality work Vernon will have nothing against the group.

Billsberry (2012) stated that John leads in performing social roles in the group. He shows the group they scan to have fun against the directions of Vernon of staying upright and silent during the whole time. He escapes the locker and starts disturbing members. He takes marijuana to start conversations with other members by teasing the other members. His actions let’s other members open up to their experiences.

Claire, Alison, and Andrew perform individual roles in the group (Daft, 2006). Alison and Claire start opening up of the groups on the mistreatment they had been experiencing at home. The ladies create interactive sessions with Andrew and John where they make the aggressiveness of the group to end. The romantic atmosphere makes it easy to each member to interact and perform.

Leadership

The leadership role applied in the group is transformational leadership style. According to Morgan (2009), Andrew and John use coercive power to force things in the group. Brian applies expert power for he has unique characteristics of being bookish in the group. Alison and Claire use referent power that they acquire from their interpersonal relationships with other members of the group. Andrew wants things done his was using conceive power. He has the muscles of enforcing things in the group to achieve his persona objective.

The leaders realized in the group are emergent. John organizational skills come when he is faced with the adversity of staying lonely in the closet (Billsberry, 2012). The risk of having undone assignment made leadership skills of creativity emerge in Brian. The need to be inclusive in the organization made Alison and Claire have friendly characteristics in the group as a way of earning allies. Andrew autocratic leadership skills emerge when he tries to push group members.

Conflict

According to Daft (2006), the climate in Breakfast Club was supportive and defensive in that they all were against the punishment by Vernon. The members ganged up to ensure they did the assignment as a group not as a person. The reason they came together to do the task together shows they are defensive in nature to show Vernon they were not wrong.

Yes, group thinking made it easy to make decisions. The members came to together to ensure the punishment does not recur. The members decide to give the role of doing an assignment to Brian (Morgan, 2009). The members decide to friendly to each other as a way of passing time which they were supposed to spend in silence.

The members solved the disagreements via compromising. Billsberry (2012) says that Andrew stops being hard on the group wanting his decisions to be adopted or participative decision-making process. John compromises his aggressive behavior of teasing group behavior to promote cohesiveness. Brian lets go the honesty behavior to save the group by doing the group assignments.

Diversity

There is a social class which results in division among the group members. Andrew, Claire, Alison and Brian are dropped off at school in cars by their parents while John on his own (Daft, 2006). The events make John to be seen as lower social class persons while the rest members are from higher social class. The ownership of cars by the families well off to have better living standards. Sexuality is used as a discriminatory act which makes Claire to be reduced due to the state of virginity. Alison and Claire get boyfriends to make them acceptable to the team.

Preference to social groupings based on the behavior of a team member. John is seen as a criminal due to his rebellious behavior. Morgan (2009) noted that Andrew is said to be an athlete persons for he participates in wrestling competition. Claire is said to be a princess for she has been pampered from birth. Alison is said to be the basket case for she views herself as a destined outcast. Brian is said to be the brain for he is bookish. John becomes talkative after taking marijuana and engaging the group in ways of saving and escaping from future mistreatment by Vernon.

Group Synergy

Yes, the Breakfast Club members achieved synergy. According to Billsberry (2012), Brian shows displays characteristics of a good guy. He talks and directs others where they can locate the library’s emergency exits. He assumes the leadership role of the group. He is foreboding further punishment if they do not do the assignments and saves by doing them. Some people believe in their abilities in the group than in participative roles. Andrew who is athletic and energetic person want the group to do things his way even if it means bulldozing everyone to have the job done. He is well fitted to be a group coordinator for he has the energy to oversee things to their completion.

Claire is a realist. She has never engaged in sexual matters meaning she is the clean person in the group. She can serve as the face of the group in public relations. John uses his criminal abilities to makes the sacrifices for the group (Daft, 2006). He results to singing to moralize groups members towards their objectives. The groups are motivated by the singing and the banding of desks. Alison saw as an outsider can challenge ideas. She can fit well in a position of a human resource officer for the interest of others at heart.

References

Billsberry, J., Charlesworth, J. A., & Leonard, P. (2012). Moving images: Effective teaching with film and television in management. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub.

Daft, R. L., & Marcic, D. (2006). Understanding management. Mason, Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.

Morgan, N. S. (2009). Quick, easy and effective behaviour management ideas for the classroom. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.