The Devil Wears Prada
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The movie The Devil Wears Prada, directed by David Frankel and based on the book by
Lauren Weisberger shows the story of a young journalist - Andrea. Recently
trained at one of the best universities in the United States, she
moves to New York in pursuit of the dream of becoming a journalist
recognized, working in a large journalism company.
Almost by chance, Andrea ends up in one of the largest and most
famous fashion magazines in the world – A Run Way. After distributing its
with a curriculum in various companies, Andrea is summoned to work at the magazine and
almost didn't make it through the interview with the editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly. Even
not being connected to the fashion world, she managed with her cleverness and apparent
talent and competence, to impress the boss Miranda, who in turn stated
being tired of hiring "beautiful, thin, and incompetent girls..." and
decided to bet on Andrea.
On her first day, even before being hired, Andy (as Andrea is
known) has a demonstration of all the fear that her boss causes in
your team. Upon arriving at work, a true "war operation"
It starts, and everyone is perfectly dressed (after all, it's the 'fashion world'), it has to
being perfect and ensuring an environment with 'nothing out of place' for the
simple arrival of Miranda. The event suggests that the operation is
it repeats every day, but Andrea believes it will be different for her after all
she will 'stay for a while, until she finds something better and leaves there.'
However, Andrea, not long after, feels attracted to this world.
the glamour, the values, and the lifestyle. Especially since she starts to hear that
you should be grateful to be in a place where 'thousands of girls would give their lives
to be." When it starts to change on the outside (shoes, bags, and accessories of
fashion), in fact Andrea also begins to change from within (replace
friends and boyfriend for work, valuing appearance and trivialities that once
were not part of their life.
Andrea creates for herself a speech that 'it couldn't be different, she didn't have'
"choice." It is very interesting the emphasis that the author places on this issue. It is a fact
that not adapting to a particular organizational culture, a
the employee would have much more difficulty performing their work there. This lack
adaptation even influences your quality of life at work. But
to say that there is no other option, in fact, is to create an excuse not to
to admit and take responsibility for one's own choices, whether they are professional, personal or
ethics.
Throughout the days, Andrea tries to 'survive' her job, initially trying
respond to what was requested. Everything was rushed, at the last moment,
apparently without planning, and Miranda was extremely demanding and
surrounded by whims and desires. As if she were a spoiled boss... After all,
Who would stop obeying someone so threatening, rude, and authoritarian.
Meanwhile, where it seems there is no planning, in fact, a
autocratic environment, where absolute authority belongs to the leader, who does not
never accepts being questioned, does not tolerate questioning people, but
one is surprised when Andrea manages to surpass herself and take initiative and
proactivity in problem solving.
Which boss or organization does not admire this characteristic in their
employees? People who begin to breathe the air of the organization and 'wear the
shirt" in such a way that they begin to foresee the problems and reach
solutions. Andrea has evolved so much in this regard that she heard from her boss
that "You can do everything." And indeed the journalist started to "run
"against time" and meet any request from Miranda Priestly. To the point of
to associate with another journalist who managed to fulfill a request from Miranda
for her daughters (without him Andrea would never have been able to, but she needed to
sacrifice a part of your values to "pay" for this small favor.
Finally, Miranda "determines" that Andrea will accompany her to Fashion Week.
from Paris. Since Andy is the second assistant, it would be correct for Emily (who
disappointed the boss with an error related to her memory) accompanied her
on this trip. With one detail – Emily was eagerly waiting for this
event and lived for it. Once again, Andrea states that she had no choice.
and agrees to accompany Miranda to the event in Paris.
At this very important moment in your career, after becoming involved in a way
even more personal with Miranda and worry about a conspiracy that
Andy discovered that to bring down his boss, Andrea is gradually going to.
disappointing with the fashion world – first the conspiracy, then the
Miranda's strategy to prevent the magazine owner's plans
they made it right. For that to happen, she harmed and ruined an old
the loyal employee of the magazine, also a friend of Andrea.
To complete her disappointment, Andrea hears from Miranda a comparison that
It leaves her extremely concerned: the statement that 'I see a lot of myself'
in you.” With this phrase, Andrea realizes how close she is to
to become another Miranda Priestly and how far she has gone from her values, her
beliefs and their life goals.
It's a very interesting movie that demonstrates organizational extremes that
we do not always see. Analyzing management theories, Miranda is a
a manager who is based on Theory X (McGregor, 1970s), treating the
people without the bare minimum of respect and believing that they need to be
threatened in order to produce with quality.
Miranda was also looking to implement an authoritarian system in her company.
coercive (according to Likert), with no communication other than waves and without
encourage interpersonal relationships. In the theory of leadership styles,
Miranda puts on a show in the interpretation of the autocratic leader, who sets guidelines.
without any participation from the group, determining which task each one should
to execute and being dominant and personal in praise or criticism (preferably
this last one, to enhance the atmosphere of fear of punishments and exposures in
public).