Analysis of Office Space: Communication in the Workplace

Office Space is a modern, Hollywood-driven adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1853 short story “Bartleby.” It revives Melville’s story by imagining modern equivalents for the major themes and characters of the original. Whiling comparing the works of Office Space and “Bartleby”, many similarities and differences are shown. Although years passed between the creation of the classic short story and the film, they both possess similarities in plot, theme, and character development.

The office has existed in one way or another throughout time as an administrative supplement to the power of the state. But for the sake of time, let's go through the landmarks of workspace history.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is every person’s god given right, but what exactly is happiness? Americans have fallen in love with the idea of success, we fantasize about cars, clothes and caviar. We want to be living the high life, but the only way to access the high life is to work for it. To climb the ladder of success till you get to the summit. It’s the American Dream, but that’s just it, it’s nothing but a dream, a fantasy. The reality of life is a boring and stressful existence where many of us are just struggling to make a few dollars. It would suffice to say that the American Dream is in all actuality the American Nightmare. The American Nightmare is a pitiful existence inside a self-made

The Office is an NBC produced show that provided comedy on Thursday nights for eight years. The Office is all about the employees of Dunder Mifflin who live in Scranton Pennsylvania (the electric city). The documentary style show films the employees working at the paper as well as filming their personal lives. An average episode of The Office is typically thirty minutes long. But the series had a few hour long episodes, depending on if it was the beginning of the season, or the end. The series finale is one of the few episodes that was an hour long. The series finale displays many different types of listening that was explained in class. Listening is important to any and all types of conversation. Without it, it would be impossible to receive and interpret messages.

As the person walks in they step into a small lobby to your right is a small play area for the children to look straight is an office painted green. As you turn to the left and walk through the doorway this takes you into another office this has three

Communication skills are very important no matter where or who you are. Communication within a workplace can determine whether a business or individual is successful or not. Understanding effective communication in a medical setting helps hospitals and doctor offices develop a work environment that is able to communicate effectively with coworker, patients and doctors in order to take of the patients needs. Listening, clarity and Patience are three main keys to effective communication within a workplace. In this paper, the author will describe an experience within the medical field work place where communication was effective.

Making her way to her makeshift office, she contacted several agencies to help with the staffing of the department. Brooke felt it necessary to confidently share some of the information with them pertaining to the change over of staff and the relocation of providers to staff the anesthesia department.

I do not think that keeping her in a small cubicle for a long period of time is fair for Lilith. I also do not agree that they gave her a companion, and to take it back because I do believe with the saying, “No man is an island.” I would get insane if it happened to me, not knowing where I am and not knowing the reason why I am in a cubicle. I would also try my best to escape. I am not an animal that they can just keep inside a small cubicle and not have the life that I deserve. I feel that Jdahya should have let her know from the start of what situation does she

Office Space is a comedy film directed by Mike Judge. This movie characterizes an unhappy employee that works for a software company named Initech. This movie is a great example of many people's work in everyday life, who are unfortunately unhappy and discouraged from their jobs and they are not treated the way they should. This movie shows an amazing change which happens to occur overnight to a guy named Peter Gibbons after a hypnosis session peter becomes incapable to worry about anything in his life. He starts to become completely free, and he decides to follow his heart by doing what he always wanted to do which is “nothing”. As a result, Peter decides to take the matter with his own hands with the help of his two friends, Samir and Michael Bolton and devises a computer program to steal from the company a small amount of money, but at the end, they accidentally end up stealing a large amount of money. Office Space demonstrates many concepts introduced by Max Weber such as Rationalization in workplace, Alienation in labor and Bureaucracy.

Communication is the conveyance and flow of ideas from one person to another. The exchange of information takes place through letters, words, symbols and nonverbal behaviors. It involves the transmission of ideas from the sender to the receiver. Communication is effective only if the receiver fully understands the transmitted information. Many problems and failures occur in organizations due to poor communication. Objective and goals fail due to misunderstandings in the organization. Effective communication provides a chain of understanding to all participants in the organizational framework. It promotes the flow of information both vertically and horizontally.

The first word I would use to describe the communication climate of my current place of employment would be self-disclosure, I chose this word because of the office comradery. My coworkers and I have been employed for about the same time and it been nearly 10 years. I work for a small independently owned business that staffs 6-12 employees depending on the season, most of us have gained the trust of one another that we feel comfortable talking about anything in front of one another. We all know each other’s family members and speak to them quite frequently, my employer makes sure everyone feels comfortable they are very open and trusting of those who deserve it.

The movie “Office Space,” which was directed in 1999 by Mike Judge, examines and critiques the various organizational

Herman Hertzberger created the inside of this building to be one social space. He created low ceiling for concentration around the work space but also created open spaces to seat between breaks or to take a breather. The building has four different entry ways that connect in the heart of the building making it the meeting place, it is also the space most open. Hertzberger made a format to arrange rooms to be social or antisocial. He creates these spaces so that people are looking at each other or away from each other. These spaces are made for up to four people creating social spaces between coworkers. The spaces are made to choose between open meeting places and hidden secluded spaces.Hertzberger created the open spaces to make it feel like you are outside, in these open spaces the building has natural light coming from above and has greenery throughout. There are also rooftop spaces created to take breaks and catch some fresh air. The rooftop spaces are larger so more people can gather in these spaces rather than chatting through the hallways. The main focus Hertzberger had was to make it feel cozy and homelike as much as possible.

Office space, a critically acclaimed film, portrays many significant themes one faces in an organization. Although it may seem like this movie was a comically based office story, it tells a deeper story about one, Peter Giffins and his environment in the work place as he goes to work every day and really hates what he does until a hypnotist intervenes into what seems like his stressfully and miserable life. This movie was most inspiring and a true insight to the corporate world, through the eyes of the poorly treated rebellious staff.

Peter has been working for with the Bigness Oil Company's local affiliate and established a trusting relationship with Jesse, manager of the local facility. Jesse was pleased with Peter's work and recommended that he be retained as the corporate consulting engineer. One day, Jesse started telling Peter a story of a mysterious loss in one of the raw petrochemicals he receives by pipeline in the 1950's. Since there was no