Storyline
Written by Charlie Ness, The Godfather is a movie that premiered in the 70s and revolves around crime; the storyline of this movie is that Don Corleone is the person in charge of a Mafia family that is based in New York. In the movie, the Don’s is getting married and as a father, he is doing everything to see that the wedding of his daughter goes well.
His son Michael has returned from war but he has no intentions of participating in the business that his father does. In the this movie, the Don is seen to be good to those people who respect him, his business and his family and will not have anybody stand in the way of his family and business.
Still in the movie, the Turk’s family would like to get into the business of selling heroine and approaches Don Corleone whose political influence in New York could provide a good head start for their intended business. Don is however adamant in accepting what would have been an otherwise very lucrative proposal.
The Don later sends one of his men Luca Brasi to Turk’s empire; Luca is however captured by Turk’s men and later in the movie the Don is shot a number of times in an attempt to assassinate him. Turk then later asks his men to offer the same deal to Don’s son.
Analysis of the movie
An analysis of this movie brings out key aspects of teams and organizational culture. To begin with, Don Corleone is the head of his business empire; he has established a great empire and also has great political aspects.
Due to his well-established career, the Don has influence and would have managed to connect the drug cartels with the necessary networks in the business within no time.
However Don Corleone has another side of him; he was merciless, ruthless and was willing to do almost anything to keep his empire and family intact. Anybody who dared stand in his way or compromise the interests of his businesses stood to be eliminated (Puzo 23).
Primary Leaders
The primary leaders in this movie are Don Corleone and Turk. They are in charge of big business empires and they are the ones who make major decisions. They are the ones who give orders in their empires and they managed to get people to respects and fear them as well.
The two empires were like teams and as it is clearly seen in the movie, every team has a leader. One team was led by Don Corleone while the other was led by Turk; every member of the team was expected to support the rest of the members to ensure that the objectives of the team were achieved.
Organizational culture
This movie represents a culture of organization where there are teams that have leaders; in this case, these teams are known as the mafia. The mafia leaders in this movie are represented by both the Turk and Don Corleone. The mafia happens to be organized crime organized groups that have a main leader and subjects who work under the instructions of these leaders.
Normally, the leaders are the ones who give instructions to subjects and the work of the subjects is to implement the instructions; usually, the subjects tend to be submissive to their leaders but brutal and almost violent when carrying out the orders given by their leaders (Puzo 23).
Conclusion
The Godfather clearly shows how organized crime gangs work with hierarchy being quite evident; it is a chain with each branch having an authority that it carries out. The issue that comes out from the movie is that even the leaders of the mafia groups are affected in the on goings of the group.
Works Cited
Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. New York: New American Library, 2005.