2. The movie The Blind Side the movie
is based on a true story of a teenage boy named
Michael Oher. Michael is an impoverished,
homeless, black teenage boy, who is deeply
traumatized due to the lack of attention from his
parents, his rough brought up in the by lanes of
America as well as the fact that his mother is a
heavy substance abuser . He is eventually
admitted into an amazing private Christian
School
where he meets Leigh Anne Touhy, a wife of a
successful businessman. She decides to help
Michael for the night but eventually ends up
helping him further as seeing Michaels
kind, caring
yet quite personality. She is right about Michaels
potential as he does become an All American
football player and first round NFL draft pick due
to her kindness.
3. Organizational Behavior traits
• Conflict management
• Motivation
• Johari window – The blind area
• Self efficacy : The belief in our ability to
succeed in specific situations. This sense
of self-efficacy can play a major role in
how you approach goals, tasks, and
challenges.
• Maslow’s need hierarchy theory
4. Conflict
Management
• The obliging style of conflict management played by Michael Oher where he has a
low concern for himself and a high concern for others
• Conflict is defined as the perception in an interdependent relationship of incompatible
wishes, goals, attitudes, emotions, or behaviors.
• Michael has conflict within himself, Michael Ohers Poem: I look and I see white
everywhere. White walls, white floors and a lot of white people. The teachers do not
know, I have no idea of anything they are talking about. I do not want to listen to
anyone especially the teachers. They are giving homework and expecting me to do
the problems on my own. I have never done homework in my life. I go to the
bathroom and look in the mirror and say this is not Michael Oher. Michael feels
alienated among all the white people in his school as he is the only black kid there.
• Conflict can come in various types such as functional or dysfunctional conflicts.
When a conflict helps to create a positive force, it is defined as functional conflict
such
as one of the scenes in the movie where Leigh Anne Touhy figures out more about
herself and discovers that helping Michael is not only helping to change his life but to
change hers as well.
5. The movie covers a variety of characters, all
unique and with their own styles of
interpersonal conflict management. No matter
how anyone may try to decrease a conflict it may
still occur and each person will have their own
way or style to deal with that conflict and that is
what interpersonal conflict management is. Our
style of managing conflict depends in part
upon our personality, our past experiences
with conflict as well as the role models we
may have had in our lives. Research has
identified five main styles in handling conflict
(Avoiding, Obliging, Dominating, Integrating and
Compromising)
