Miranda Priestly is the powerful editor-in-chief of Runway magazine who rules through fear and intimidation. She abuses her power over her employees, demanding perfection and ignoring basic courtesies. This creates an unhealthy work environment. There are also ethical issues with Miranda not mentoring a successor and prioritizing her own interests over the company's future. Additionally, Miranda pushes boundaries by asking her assistant Andy Sachs to do tasks outside her job description, like trying to obtain an unpublished manuscript, showing disregard for proper work-life balance and reasonable requests of employees.
Miranda Priestly is the powerful editor-in-chief of Runway magazine who rules through fear and intimidation. She abuses her power over her employees, demanding perfection and ignoring basic courtesies. This creates an unhealthy work environment. There are also ethical issues with Miranda not mentoring a successor and prioritizing her own interests over the company's future. Additionally, Miranda pushes boundaries by asking her assistant Andy Sachs to do tasks outside her job description, like trying to obtain an unpublished manuscript, showing disregard for proper work-life balance and reasonable requests of employees.
Miranda Priestly is the powerful editor-in-chief of Runway magazine who rules through fear and intimidation. She abuses her power over her employees, demanding perfection and ignoring basic courtesies. This creates an unhealthy work environment. There are also ethical issues with Miranda not mentoring a successor and prioritizing her own interests over the company's future. Additionally, Miranda pushes boundaries by asking her assistant Andy Sachs to do tasks outside her job description, like trying to obtain an unpublished manuscript, showing disregard for proper work-life balance and reasonable requests of employees.
Miranda Priestly is the powerful editor-in-chief of Runway magazine who rules through fear and intimidation. She abuses her power over her employees, demanding perfection and ignoring basic courtesies. This creates an unhealthy work environment. There are also ethical issues with Miranda not mentoring a successor and prioritizing her own interests over the company's future. Additionally, Miranda pushes boundaries by asking her assistant Andy Sachs to do tasks outside her job description, like trying to obtain an unpublished manuscript, showing disregard for proper work-life balance and reasonable requests of employees.
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Miranda Priestly,the Editor-in-Chief of Runway magazine
The most apparent business ethical issue in "The Devil Wears Prada" was probably the abuse of power and privilege. The Devil Wears Prada places a premium on leadership. Fear was a significant factor in how things were handled on the Runway. Examining the morning scene where Miranda is about to enter the office, and everyone becomes fidgety trying to get everything ready for her and into their positions demonstrates this. Such a work environment does not appear to be healthy. Next, while Miranda was walking to her office, every employee who passed her would ignore her, and it was apparent when Miranda got in the lift that a woman got out of the lift and apologised to Miranda. The employee was either scared or wanted Miranda to believe she deserved to use the lift on her own. When Miranda unexpectedly arrived at the office, it was as if such sins had surged the place where all the employees were getting ready in their positions to look best and most stylish while working. Miranda's eyes were catchy when she noticed her employee was not appropriately dressed. Just like Andy's first day when she didn't wear high heels, Miranda looked from top to bottom to signal to Andy that she didn't like Andy's shoes. Then Andy quickly changes the shoes given to him by Nigel Kipling earlier.
Is it ethical for Miranda Priestly, the Runway Editor, to not have apprentices replace her after she retires? Miranda never took the time to mentor or guide anyone and always believed no one could do what she did to Runway. According to one of the five characteristics of moral standards, Miranda should be preferred over other values, including self-interest. Her action may not be wrong because she did not want anyone to imitate her style or be backstabbed by her employee or mentee if she is mentoring any of her employees. Still, it is wrong to prioritise self-interest over morality. What will happen to the company after she retires from the Runway. What will happen to the company when she retires from the Runway? There is a scene in which Andy tries to save Miranda after learning that Jacqueline Follet will replace Miranda. Later, as Miranda and Andy are being driven to a show, she explains to a still-stunned Andy that she was grateful for the warning but already knew about the plot to replace her and sacrificed Nigel to keep her job. When Miranda retires from her job, and there is no employee capable of replacing her, the company's profit may suffer because competitors may defeat Runway's reputation if the company returns with less experienced and knowledgeable employees. 1. Miranda's assistant, Andrea "Andy" Sachs
Andy committed an ethical violation by stealing, as demonstrated when Miranda
demanded that Andy obtain the unpublished Harry Potter manuscript or face termination. Miranda was attempting to put her assistant to the test by placing a fictitious order for steak for her lunch. Then later, when Andy had already prepared it for her on the table, she said she did not want it because she would be having lunch outside. Miranda tortures Andy further by reminding her that if she does not get the manuscript before Miranda's twin children go to see their grandmother; she will be fired immediately. Andy went to great lengths to satisfy Miranda as she gradually improved her position and became more comfortable and empathetic to Miranda's persona, perhaps under the impression that she and Miranda were becoming friends and still had something to prove. The almost impossible task of obtaining unpublished material should have been the breaking point for Andy in "The Devil Wears Prada." It almost was when she called her boyfriend and said she was quitting, but when her contact came through with the unpublished manuscript, Andy felt relieved that she actually did something right, and then she found herself back in the culture that had shaped her recent norms and morals.
Miranda's next unethical moment occurred when she asked Andy to do more than her job description as an assistant. Miranda called Andy even when it wasn't working hours because she didn't care as long as she got what she wanted and expected her assistant to fulfil it. For example, Miranda called Andy while having dinner with her father at a nice restaurant. Miranda is forcing Emily to find another plane because her plan cancels due to bad weather. She persuades Emily that the weather is not as bad as it appears, even though it could harm anyone flying any plane at that time. Emily forgets his father to find a plane for her boss because she does not want to be fired. Finally, the plane was unavailable, and Miranda was disappointed because she could not attend her twin daughter's school play performance.
