Management

Set in the early 1970’s when racism was still heavily prominent throughout the United States, the Titans football team is forced to overcome and accept this underlying conflict of racism to achieve their goal of a fully functional and successful team. The film Remember the Titans directed by Boaz Yakin, journeys through the leadership of the newly appointed African- American coach with his team of both black and white players. The story depicts both the struggles and triumphs the Titans experience to achieve victory. As the course of the movie progresses, the mixture of players on the same team learn to respect each other and overlook their differences while improving their skills as teammates on and off the field. As this racial harmony and cohesiveness is established, the team proves victorious and successful as the season comes to a close. This film involves the specific growth process the group of football players takes to develop and mature into the effective team they strive for. As the story progresses, both the coaching staff and the teammates realize they can all possess leader qualities and characteristics. This underlying concept of motivation, from both the coaches and the players, accounts for most of the team’s success and is expressed through the theories of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, McClelland’s theory of needs and goal- setting. The presence of leadership roles and qualities within the Titans can also be explained and accounted for by another theory in the text, the path goal theory. Not only do motivation and leadership skills contribute to the workings of a successful team, but solid and understandable management does as well. The control theory mentioned within the text is a vital concept to management and organization.

Throughout the course of the movie, the Titans transformed from a work group of players to an effective football team. As a group, the boys preformed more individually and functioned efficiently but lacked the...