CHICKEN RUN - With the eyes of Organizational Behavior

The movie chicken run is not only the movie but it teaches a bundle of lessons to achieve organizational goals.

The communication process and unity among the chickens were awesome and a little disagreement leads to a chaos which distracts productivity of all. The movie shows strategic planning of chickens utilizing all powers (resources) efficiently with joining hands with their partner no matter they are rats. Politics is all about maintaining relations and utilizing them at the right time. In the same manner effective communication process and teamwork was marvelous.

Ginger stands out as a leader among all giving chickens a vision and mission. With all capabilities ginger thought about not only one but all the folks around. Leader is one who never thought of its own success but he tries his best to take his team with him. Ginger character shows a chicken with high spirits, positive approach and S.M.A.R.T goals. When you care for your sub-ordinates they care for you as well. When ginger was saved by her people was an excellent example of team work. The scenario also depicts that leaders don’t go for anything individually they always work on collectivism.

Ginger as a leader motivated all the chickens with the power of visualization. Dream that becomes a reality. A land of chickens where no one can rule them and they won’t be slaughter anymore if don’t lay eggs. This motivation works and finally they achieve the ultimate success and goal they want on which ginger worked day in and day out with his team.

Personality and Attitude

Personality consists of Physical and psychological phases.

Physical includes race, color, looks , dress, nationality and etc

Psychological includes norms, likes/dislikes, drives/excites, motivation, perception, VALUES, beliefs and etc.

Values and beliefs are the most important component of a personality. These two characteristics comprise the personality into a nutshell. It is well said that “your action follows your belief” and if your beliefs are strong your actions shows it.

Belief is a crucial part of ones personality and it determines the purpose and basis of passion of an individual

Values depicts what you prefer and to what things you give impotence in your life. Example of a lady at British council.

Further explaining the personality it is divided in three basic parts

• ·         Self esteem
• ·         Socializing
• ·         Person-situation interaction

Self esteem is all about how you see yourself? What is your opinion about yourself? There are two types of people one with high self esteem and other with low self esteem.

High self-esteem people report more positive attitudes, feelings and life satisfaction and less anxiety, hopelessness and depressive symptoms. This category thinks that they are unique, competent, secure, empowered and connected to people around them.

Low self-esteem people are less confident in decision making, lack in negotiation skills and interpersonal skills.

Socialization refers how you respond to social environment. Before hiring companies test these socializing process individuals by different aspects. It determines whether you are a team player or a leader. How you convince others in day to day transactions and etc.

Situation-person interaction is how one reacts to different situation and how he handles different situations.

Now, ATTITUDE is defined as a persistent tendency to feel and behave in a particular way towards some object.  Attitude is divided into three basic components.

• ·         Emotional
• ·         Informational
• ·         Behavioral

Emotional components involves the person’s feelings or affect- positive, negative or neutral

Informational component consists of the beliefs and information the individual has about the objects

Behavioral component consists of a person’s tendencies to behave in a particular way towards an object.

Functions of Attitudes

• ·         Adjustment
• ·         Ego defensive
• ·         Value expressive
• ·         Knowledge

Job satisfaction

Job satisfaction refers how individual sees his/her job. One derives pleasurable and positive emotional state from job experience or not includes in job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction can be measured from different things

• ·         Work itself
• ·         Promotion
• ·         Pay
• ·         Supervision
• ·         Co workers
• ·         Environment

 The result of job satisfaction is that the employees remain productive, persistent and less turnover in the company.