Enron Culture Analysis

Culture of Enron
The whole documentary was based on the failing of the ENRON Corporation. Enron was a company that was doing many illegal schemes and also was involved with the California energy crisis just to make the utility costs set out to be what the average American price was. Enron did anything they had to do, no matter if it was killing off the whole world, just to make money and keep themselves rich. People were getting robbed blind. No one could actually see all of the damage that they were doing because Enron had everything played out so well and so many people on it, and not to mention, it was one of the largest, “richest” businesses, so many people thought that the government could have known, so they trusted Enron. So many people …show more content…
Transactional Leadership is a process in which leaders give followers rewards for performance in exchange for the followers’ hard work. In this way, transactional leaders promote the goals of the organization by getting employees to work hard. Enron worked very hard to keep their stocks and shares up no matter what the situation was. All of the employees and staff worked together to make sure that they were being successful and kept their “secret” hidden from the outside world. Even though what they were doing was very illegal, teamwork played a huge role. Leadership played a significant role too, but in this case, the leader wasn’t a “good” leader because the whole scheme was illegal. Each leader, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling empowered their workers and inspired them. They trusted their leaders because of their intelligence and their recognition of them. They always told them to act as if they are the best …show more content…
The Enron staff was very much stressed. They talked about how their job was taking over their lives and was just an on going process all day everyday. They were overwhelmed with the workload; it was like they never had a break. They became even more stressed; depressed, and emotional because they lost everything that they had been working towards, such as their retirement, stocks, and other monies they had put away. Everything was vanished when Enron was going down and going bankrupt. They had nothing to look forward to and had to wonder how they were going to pay their next bill or where their next meal would come