PATTERNS Essay Research Paper PatternsOn October 17th

PATTERNS Essay, Research Paper

Patterns

On October 17th and 19th, we viewed the movie Patterns in class. Patterns

took place in the old Chrysler building during the 1950’s. It showed how success

in the business world could be achieved dishonestly. Greed for success and money

can sometimes take the place of honesty and integrity.

Mr. Ramsey is the President of the Ramsey Company. He inherited the company

from his deceased father. Mr. Ramsey was looking to improve his company

throughout the movie, no matter who or what got it his way, similar to

Machiavelli’s way, which is discussed in chapter 4. Mr. Ramsey is like

Machiavelli in that he is willing to do whatever it takes to get what he wants

in the end, as long as the end justifies the means. Mr. Ramsey will accept

nothing less than taking his company to the top. Case in point, Mr. Ramsey took

over the Anderson Company and downsized it to 3,000 employees from that company

in order to make a profit. Mr. Ramsey did not care whether 3,000 people were

going to be out of work. All Mr. Ramsey cared about was money and success that

his company would have by the downsizing. Mr. Ramsey always has this need for

power and achieves a great deal of it by hurting other people, but obviously

that was not a concern when he saw potential for profit.

Mr. Ramsey follows Maslow’s Needs of Hierarchy, in the sense that once you go

up the hierarchy of needs; you never go down a level. Mr. Ramsey always wanted

to remain in Theory Y, which are the higher needs, but the need level that he

really wanted to be was in self-actualization. Mr. Ramsey is so emphatic about

making his company reach such great heights that he even took the time to read

Mr. Staple’s report at Staple’s party on his own leisure time. By doing so,

Ramsey proves the company is what he dedicates his whole life to. Therefore,

Ramsey’s terminal value is making his company a total success that is when and

only when Mr. Ramsey finds happiness, pleasure, and self-respect. The

instrumental values that Mr. Ramsey uses in order to achieve his goal is through

ambition, responsibility, and imagination. Mr. Ramsey feels being intelligent

and ambitious gets you what you want and then you fulfill all the

responsibilities and tasks at hand just as long as you have the motivation and

drive to do so.

Mr. Ramsey has a high self-esteem despite the fact that he is never satisfied

with improving the company. For instance, throughout the movie Mr. Ramsey says,

"The business has been running well because of me." I believe running

a business is a team effort and everyone plays an important role. Mr. Ramsey is

so impressed with the way he runs his business that he even puts down his father

by saying "My old man did not know how to run this company into being a

success like I do".

Mr. Ramsey believed in one-way communication when he spoke and everybody just

listened to him. Mr. Ramsey never wanted his judgement questioned. For example,

when Mr. Briggs questioned Mr. Ramsey’s judgement concerning business matters,

and when Ramsey spoke about the report that Mr. Staples and Mr. Briggs worked on

together, Mr. Ramsey felt Mr. Briggs was not intelligent enough to come up with

such ideas and gave all of the credit to Mr. Staples, as well as giving Staples

a high appraisal while Mr. Briggs was given a poor appraisal from Mr. Ramsey. By

Briggs attempting to speak up on a subject matter, Mr. Ramsey immediately cut

him off while speaking and trying to bring out important points. That was rude,

not to mention discourteous.

Mr. Briggs has been the Vice President of the Ramsey Company for the past 40

years. Mr. Briggs on the other hand is the complete opposite of Mr. Ramsey. Mr.

Briggs is more concerned about a need for affiliation in maintaining close,

intimate relationships among co-workers and other companies that he does

business with, rather than trying to make money for a capital gain like Mr.

Ramsey. For example, Mr. Brigg’s previous secretary, Miss Fleming, was sad that

she was to be assigned to be Mr. Staple’s secretary because she knew that Briggs

was a nice man and she respected him because he was kind to her and he had good

values since he was a people person. It does not take much to show courtesy or

common decency to say good morning or to ask how someone is doing. These are the

things which make it a more pleasant for people to come to work every day.

According to Brigg’s values, he never felt it was right to step on another

man’s shoes in order to advance or make a profit. For example, Mr. Briggs argued

with Mr. Ramsey about downsizing 3,000 employees from the Anderson Company

because he was upset about the fact that 3,000 people would be out of work just

to make more money that was not necessary to make the company function.

The terminal values Mr. Briggs

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