Le manager Pygmalion

Eve Lamendour

Revue française de gestion, 2009, vol. n° 194, issue 4, 149-167

Abstract: Movies often depict companies negatively. Their unfavorable portraits of managers permeate the representations currently held by the public. A number of contemporary films look upon management mostly as a relational process, and the company is shown as a place where staff relationships are a matter of beginner-mentor exchanges. This notion is strong and widespread but is it grounded in reality? Our purpose in the present article is to look critically at this view and to assess the part really played by companies in the training of their junior executives. In so doing we hope to understand what is at stake in hierarchical behaviors and to show how the analysis of some fictitious representations can influence real-world management.

Date: 2009
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