There is a wonderful connect between movies and management. Classrooms’ effectiveness can be enhanced quite dramatically when appropriate movies are used for complementing the course’s learning outcomes.  If seeing is believing, several movies can be used to complement the classroom learning. While some of them can be used to orchestrate a particular theme / concept independently, several of these movies’ plots can be used to underscore the importance of several concepts / themes. For instance, if one wants to show the influencing power and the corresponding impact of Pygmalion effect (also called Rosenthal Effect), 1938 Movie, “Pygmalion” (Bernard Shaw) can be shown.

Outsourced (2006)

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The movie is a depiction on topics like - job cuts, cross-cultural management and globalization, need for cultural awareness training for employees, and ensure their offshore partners, organizations dealing in global markets with global workforces

The Insider (1999)

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This movie about corporate whistle-blowers and how when an employee decides to speak up against unethical or illegal behavior

Modern Times (1936)

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A movie to gain an insight into the historical evolution of Management as a discipline and Taylor's scientific management theory

Goodfellas (1990)

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Focuses on the groupn dynamics and how each individual's role in business can change

Office Space (1999)

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 Touching almost all HR issues is a satirical take on typical work life in a software company 

ADALEN 31 (1969)

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A Great Movie on Trade Unions

WAL-MART: THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE (2005)

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A hard-hitting documentary, exposing the unacceptable face of American capitalism, on the retail hegemoth Wal-Mart. The film makes clear that this success is at a very high cost to individuals and communities:  Small businesses in small town USA are put out of business; staff are paid low wages and denied representation by a union; shoppers risk rape and robbery in the store's car parks; east Asian suppliers are exploited.

SCHINDLERS LIST (1993)

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 This shows that people in business can — and must — make as much or an even greater contribution to the public good as government and non-profits.

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