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Assignment III

“INSIDER”
Analysis and
reflections

Abhilash G Nambudiri
Agenda
 Analysis of different protagonists as in
the movie in different contexts and
circumstances
 The Fired VP Research of B&W
 Producer of 60 minutes

 SWOT Analysis on the Ethical Dilemma


Handling Capability of the two main
protagonists

 Corporate Ethics Policy Framework’s


point of view
Protagonist #1
Dr. Wigand, VP Research - B&W
(Russell Crowe)
Personal Codes
 Man who honors contracts and words

 Driven by emotional feelings


 Which ultimately made him to quit the job

 A man of great courage & determination


 Evident from his willingness to reveal things
at the risk of his own career and family
relations

 A man with perfect faith in himself


 Was 100% confident in refuting what his
superiors says about nicotine because of his
sound understanding of subject and faith in
himself
Family Codes
 Caring towards family and kids

 He believes in the need of healthy


family in nurturing his kids well

 He is kind of skeptical about the stand


of his wife in his professional matter or
he doesn’t want her to get involved in
his professional issues
 The fact that he did not revealed about the
interview at the first place to his wife is an
indication to this
Professional Codes

 From the film he seems to be highly


dedicated to what ever organization he
was associated with
 His unwillingness to break the
confidentiality agreement with the company
is an example

 He is a man of professional integrity

 Respect to other’s professional integrity


Organizational Codes
 He has a perfect sense of the internal
systems of the organization

 His personal codes seems to


complement organizational codes
 The loyalty towards organization in not
revealing some facts which can work
against the good will of the company
Commercial Codes
 He cares for money to support his family
and kids

 At this later juncture of life he is more


concerned about the financial implications
of being fired from the job
 This gives an idea that he is been driven by
money

 But still there seems to be a conflict of


interest between his personal and
Public Codes

 Believes in doing good for the public


 The drive behind revealing insider
information to the public

 He don’t care for the publicity

 Believes in doing the job perfectly and


not for the sake of publicity
Protagonist #2
Producer, “60 minutes”, Mr.
Bergman (Al Pacino)
Personal Codes
 Believes in making the truth available
to public
 Person of determination and
perseverance
 Evident from the efforts he make to get Dr.
Wigand before the camera and also the
Interview with Muslim fundamental leader
 Risk taking attitude is there in him
 The kind of risks he is taking to get the
story published in NY Times at the end
 Man of principle and commitment to
others
Professional Codes
 True to his profession
 Believes in the truthfulness of news he airs
 Goal oriented
 Always tries to increase popularity of his
show by getting breaking news
 Goes out of the framework to get things
done
 Approach to NY times for getting the
interview published
 Very firm believer of what ho does
 Argument with his bosses in order to air the
interview and the subsequent events is the
proof
Organizational Codes
 He seems to be much more concerned
about his own work rather than
organization
 Even though he cares not to overrule the
boss’s decision not to air the programme,
he searches and finds out alternate ways to
let the truth see the light

 He follows hierarchy prevailing in the


organization

 Believes in democratic ways of solving


Public Codes

 He is a publicity person
 Being a media person he needs to be. Also
he boasts about the viewer ship of his
programme

 He also believes in public’s rights for


information
Conflict of interest
 Dr. Wigand (Russell Crowe)
 Whether or not to disclose insider
information to public
 Personal codes insist on disclosing but he is
tied up by a confidentiality agreement with
the company
 Here two codes within him personal and
organizational are in conflict
 He has either option not to disclose
information and lead a peaceful life or to go
ahead and disclose the information and go
through troubles as been threatened by the
company (B&W)
 Here the tussle is between personal code of
conduct and organizational code of conduct
Conflict of interest (Dr. Wigand,
cont..)
 Here the personal code overshadows the
organizational one and he went on to give
the public interview
 This presents the strength of the character
he possesses which is strong enough to do
something which may even hinder his
future life
Conflict of interests

 Mr. Bergman (Al Pacino)


 He also faces some sort of same stand
off between his personal code and
organizational codes
 In his as well as public interest he wanted
to air the interview with Dr. Wigand.
 But his organizational interests were
different, air it without the important
whistle blowing part, interview
Conflict of interest (Mr. Bergman,
cont..)
 He also had an option not to work for letting
the truth out and lead a peaceful life
 Here also personal code overpower the
organizational codes
 The difference between these two
protagonists is that Russell Crowe does it
because of a much more broader objective
and his public conscience whereas Al
pacino’s deed was more like a retaliation to
the organization (CBS) which controlled him
from doing what he thought correct
SWOT analysis on ‘ethical
dilemma handling ability’
 Dr. Wigand (Russell Crowe)
 Strength
 This attitude will fetch lots of good will
 Weakness
 Emotions attached to it will have negative effect
in practicality
 Opportunity
 Opportunity to gain public mileage
 Threat
 Threat from former supporters financially,
physically and psychologically
SWOT analysis on ‘ethical
dilemma handling ability’
(Contd..)
 Mr. Bergman (Al Pacino)
 Strength
 Based on an inner core strength, courage
 Weakness
 May not be applicable in another situation
 Opportunity
 In a profession like journalism, media this is an
opportunity to get noticed in the peer circle
 Threat
 May get stamped as “NOT FIT FOR
ORGANIZATION”
Corporate Ethics Policy
Framework - Guidelines
 Any organization has to have a national
interest towards its public which forces
them to be accountable to the public
 Organizations should deliver what it
promises
 Certain expectations has to be met by
every organizations in their respective
spheres
 Organizations should give room for
personal codes of conduct to be

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