#roleconflict

The scene that you just saw, shows Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) who is trying to have a conversation with her boss (played by Ernie Hudson). The scene is set in a gym of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Gracie mentions that she is now ready to become the ambassador or the face of the Bureau. She says that she wants to be a positive role model for women. Meanwhile, Gracie gets into a fight with Sam Fuller, who is transferred to the bureau because of her anger management issues. In this blog, Learning Perspectives will explore the meaning of different roles adopted in organizations.

What are different roles in an Organization?

Shakespeare had said, ” World is a stage and we all are merely players.” He was right in saying so.

Individuals play different roles in this lifetime. A man can play diverse roles in his life both on the job and off-job. Understanding the behavior of a person is linked to understanding the role that they are playing in their lives. A woman can be a mother, daughter, sister, lover, daughter-in-law, wife, friend, etc. Her behavior changes with the group she is in, if she’s a religious person then her behavior is different in a prayer group and her behavior differs when she’s out with her friends the same day.

Similarly, roles in an organization change constantly. An employee assumes a subordinate role at the beginning of their career and gradually moves to a leadership role. An employees’ stance changes continuously. This can be seen while communicating with people from different levels in an organization.

Role Identity:

There are certain attitudes and actual behaviors consistent with a role and they create role identity. People can shift roles rapidly when the situation demands major changes.

Gracie is adopting a leadership stance when she tells her boss that she wants to be the face of the FBI.

Role Perception:

Our view of how we are supposed to act in a given situation.  It is based on an interpretation of how we believe we are supposed to behave.  These perceptions come from TV, social media, radio, friends, etc. We find random videos going viral every other day, many people tend to perceive things by the influence of such videos.

Similar to the scene that we just saw, Gracie Hart does not show any emotion, when her boss confronts her by asking ‘whether she had been crying’. To this Gracie replies that she doesn’t even have tear ducts. Gracie wants to be perceived as a tuff officer.

Role Expectations:

This is how others believe you should act. How one behaves is determined to a large extent by the role defined in the context in which you are acting.

Gracie Hart shows no sign of feminity as her job requires her to do so. She is a bright and capable agent yet she ignores her feminine energy as her role demands her to be masculine, stiff, and harsh.

Role Conflict:

Summary: 

A new prosecutor on Nate’s case gets a statement from Annalise about Nate’s trial. Annalise cooks up a story that Nate followed her home after they had sex that night, and that he engaged in a physical altercation with a drunk Sam. Later at night, the prosecutor approaches Asher for a statement about Annalise. This spells trouble because Asher will probably unknowingly reveal info about how Annalise caused Nate’s original judge to be replaced. Rebecca tries to psycho Connor into doubting Wes, insinuating that he killed his mother when he was 12. When Asher comes to work and bangs on the office door, everyone is distracted. Rebecca quickly uses Michaela’s phone to text an unknown number with a cryptic message: “Eggs 911. Lawyer’s house.”While Frank deals with Asher, everyone else retreats to the basement to hide from Asher. There, they tie up Rebecca. They all hear Asher talk to Frank about his relationship with Bonnie.Rebecca also reveals that she found Lila dead in the water tank, then hid inside when a few sorority girls came up the roof. Annalise finds out that Rebecca is missing from the basement. Frantic, she returns back up asks everyone who did it. Wes goes to the basement and is dumbfounded to see her gone. Desperate and a loss of what to do, he seeks solace in Annalise, who tells him to profusely believe that Sam killed Lila.

5 months ago: Over the phone, Lila tells Sam that she will reveal their affair and her pregnancy to Annalise. She goes to the Keating house but is turned away by Bonnie. Sam meets Lila at the rooftop of the sorority house and claims he wants to be with her. As soon as he leaves, he makes a call to someone on the payphone. “I need you to do what we talked about. You owe me,” he says. That someone goes up the roof and strangles Lila to death.

We find out that Lila’s killer is in fact Frank, who disposes her body in the water tank. Rebecca then goes up the rooftop and finds nothing but Lila’s phone. She checks the water tank and finds her body inside. Annalise goes back down the basement after Wes leaves the house. Frank is standing there overlooking something underneath the stairs.

Source: 

http://poptius.com/2015/03/02/how-to-get-away-with-murder-finale-episode-14-15-recap/

ROLE CONFLICT