Jerry Maguire
Why was Jerry Maguire fired?
The most obvious reason that Jerry Maguire is fired from his company is because he writes a memo wherein he describes his own personal opinions about how the agents should consider and interact with their clients. His memo indicates a personal belief system and a path of ethics which does not coalesce with the intentions of his employers. He advocates being someone on whom players can rely rather than just the shark-like individuals focused on making money. Thus he takes on an ideology that does not fit in with the business plan of the agency and makes him inappropriate for him to continue working in this field, at least with the intentions of this company.
How did his attempt at leadership and creating the new mission statement create conflict with his supervisor?
Attempting to take on a position of leadership in the business threatened not only policy, but the structure and hierarchy of those employed in supervisory positions. From a more business minded perspective, it can be said that the reason Jerry Maguire was fired from his job was that he did not release his proposal through proper channels. Rather than discuss his proposed policy changes with the company and his superiors, he sent it out to the company at large. If Jerry had proposals, especially proposals for change...
Ethics, Hypocrisy, and Transformation in the Film Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire is a film set in the 1990's which shows the clear differences between idealism and ethical thinking and the hypocrisy of the workplace, where lip service is paid to doing the right thing, but actions contradict the rhetoric. A clear theme in this film is therefore hypocrisy, with the feel good factor of redemption through transformation (Gayules & Bird, 2005).
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