Organizational Behavior In The Wolf Of Wall Street

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“Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.” by Henry V. O’Neil represents the notion behind an effective organizational behavior. In an organizational settings, how well the employees are managed and understood depends on the leadership style exhibited by the leaders. Finding the right balance between being too strict or too easy with the employees not only create an ideal work environment but also increase productivity and reduce employee turnover. While watching The Wolf of Wall Street, the film provocatively raised various questions about the nature of organizational life and management styles and thus provided an opportunity to analyze different organizational behavioral concepts. The topics related to organizational behavior that I discovered by watching The Wolf of Wall street include organizational culture, need for power, leadership, extrinsic rewards, Diversity, and informal group. Organizational culture defines a jointly shared values and behaviors that contribute to the social and psychological environment of an organization. In The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, the narrator and the central character, described the culture of his company, Stratton Oakmont, to be very straight-laced and buttoned-down. Jordan Belfort’s memoir about his rise and fall at the Wall Street was driven by his lifestyle, drugs, sex, and high