Chicken Run Analyze

Chicken Run: Leadership Analysis.
Chicken Run is a movie that tells us the story of a group of chickens that are trap in a farm where their days are count, because the owners are going to kill them in order to open a new business of chicken pies. This horrible scene is where our characters are living and in order to survive they will have to find their strength and will to live, of course in this story in order to have success they will need a leader. From this point is where this good movie show us the importance of being a leader and how the performance of a leader can help others to become better and help them to reach a goal. Something important of this course is to understand the role of a leader, know the different characteristics that have a leader and the different types of leader that are; I consider that this movie help us to analyze and understand the concept of leader and show us how a leader can change a situation that looks “impossible” to reach.
During the film I was able to see specific characteristics that a leader have and how they work together to motivate the people around them and help them to reach a goal. In this case Chicken Run shows us how the teamwork is vital for a leader if he/she wants to success, they way the chicken worked together to built the plane is the perfect example of teamwork. The strength that the chicken Ginger shows to overcome the different problems and also the strength that shows Rocky to accept his mistakes and help the chickens in the end are the examples of the strength and will that a leader need if they want to succeed. The good example of Ginger is the way of how a leader must show a example to their “subordinates” and how the good examples can help to improve the work environment and motivate the people around the leader. Responsibility is an important part of being a leader and in the movie is show when Rocky returns to help Ginger and save the others chickens. Finally the Quick thinking that every leader needs is show when Rocky think a plant to save Ginger or when Ginger decides to built a plane in order to solve the problems. As we can see this five characteristics or traits are vital for a leader if they want to help the orders to reach their potential and to be able to reach a goal; but what kind of leader exist in this movie? Well this question gives us three answers of the different leaders that I could watch in the movie. The first one is the one that describes the “Behavioral Theory”, because I consider that Ginger or Rocky where “people” that with the time obtain the aptitudes and attitudes to become leaders this can be explain for their background where they could see the different injustices that where make to their partners, the wish to have freedom and finally the will to do something about it and change their reality. This characteristic is the long range perspective of the leader that helps them to different perspectives that not everybody can have. Another type of leader that appear is the leader explain in the “Fiedler Contingency Model” because Rocky one of the main characters and someone who become a leader for the group was made leader for the situation; because he didn’t chose to be there and become the “last hope” of the chickens he was there be “accident” and the situation make him to become a leader; we can see this when he return to save Ginger and make a plan to destroy the pie machine with the help of the other chickens; maybe he wasn’t a leader and the beginning but we can said without doubt that he become an important part of the group after different problems and situations that occurred during the movie and which put him in the role of a leader. Finally I will also say that other type of leader we were able to see was the “Charismatic Leadership”, because Rocky show from the beginning self-confidence and a behavior out of the ordinary; through the movie we could see how their strong values and convictions force him to articulate the vision of escape and finally he was perceived as a change agent. The same situation applies to Ginger because she was self-confident, she had strong convictions about her vision of escape, she posses a vision of a better place for her partners, she was able to articulate their vision, she behave out of the ordinary, was a change agent and has environmental sensitivity.
To conclude this movie help me to understand in a better way the concept of a leader and let me to analyze a situation where the importance of one help to change the destiny of many people.
Abelardo Velasco