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The Department Manager
195829 min 25 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Hugh O'Connor
Production: Morten ParkerNicholas Balla
Script: Morten ParkerIan MacNeill
This film is centred on a mini-drama in which a successful design engineer encounters many problems when he is promoted to a managerial position. The film raises questions about the sources of job satisfaction, the perils of promotion from within the organization, and the demands that are put on a person placed for the first time in an administrative or managerial role.
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Subject categories
- Work and Labour Relations > Human ResourcesLabour Relations
Credits
- director
- Hugh O'Connor
- producer
- Morten Parker
- commentary
- Morten Parker
- executive producer
- Nicholas Balla
- script
- Ian MacNeill
- photography
- John Gunn
- sound
- Claude Pelletier
- editing
- Douglas Davidson
- sound editing
- David Green
- Malca Gillson
- narrator
- Budd Knapp
- H.D. Woods