Brief summary of storyline and context:
The Internship is a film about two friends Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) who's salesman careers go spiraling in the wrong direction and end up without a job. They find themselves trying to prove themselves to the world that they can become something great and not amount to nothing. Nick and Billy do this by taking internships at Google which is where this film takes place and where they are faced with many challenges but also learn and create strong bonds with their fellow Googlers.
The fellow Googlers are Lyle, the team leader who works at Google, Stuart, who is on his phone melt of the time and is very arrogant, Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American who is extremely clever but …show more content…
Functional conflict is shown in the film when the interns receive a challenge of having to work in a call centre as a Google helpline. Mr. Chetty gives clear instructions that all interns must log into their accounts so that he can review their work later, but Billy did not do that.
Billy causes his team to lose and feels that he has let the team down and that he is a failure. He gives up in himself but Nick pulls him back to the team. Billy made a mistake because he was distracted and not concentrating, which you could say is one of his downfalls. Billy learnt from this mistake and this is an example of functional conflict, and not only did he learn from this mistake, but it showed the closeness of the team when we see how sad they are when he is gone and try to get him back which she is true teamwork.
Dysfunctional conflict:
Dysfunctional conflict will occur when mistakes are made or arguments arise but, they continue to happen, do not get resolved and no lesson is learnt from the conflict that is
The Internship is a film about two friends Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) who's salesman careers go spiraling in the wrong direction and end up without a job. They find themselves trying to prove themselves to the world that they can become something great and not amount to nothing. Nick and Billy do this by taking internships at Google which is where this film takes place and where they are faced with many challenges but also learn and create strong bonds with their fellow Googlers.
The fellow Googlers are Lyle, the team leader who works at Google, Stuart, who is on his phone melt of the time and is very arrogant, Yo-Yo, a Filipino-American who is extremely clever but …show more content…
Functional conflict is shown in the film when the interns receive a challenge of having to work in a call centre as a Google helpline. Mr. Chetty gives clear instructions that all interns must log into their accounts so that he can review their work later, but Billy did not do that.
Billy causes his team to lose and feels that he has let the team down and that he is a failure. He gives up in himself but Nick pulls him back to the team. Billy made a mistake because he was distracted and not concentrating, which you could say is one of his downfalls. Billy learnt from this mistake and this is an example of functional conflict, and not only did he learn from this mistake, but it showed the closeness of the team when we see how sad they are when he is gone and try to get him back which she is true teamwork.
Dysfunctional conflict:
Dysfunctional conflict will occur when mistakes are made or arguments arise but, they continue to happen, do not get resolved and no lesson is learnt from the conflict that is