Visual learning is the best learning and understanding the organisational behaviour through this is the best way to have the empathetic view.

1. SUBMITTED BY
POORVI, PRERANA RAWAT, RADHA, RIDDHIMA, RIYA, SAMYAK

2. • BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF ROBERT BILOTT, DARK
WATERS TELL THE HEROIC STORY OF A CORPORATE
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, ROB BILOTT
WHO RISKS HIS HEALTH, CAREER, REPUTATION,
LIVELIHOOD AND FAMILY RELATIONS TO UNCOVER A
DARK SECRET HIDDEN BY ONE THE WORLD’S LARGEST
CORPORATIONS, DUPONT AND TO BRING JUSTICE TO
A COMMUNITY WHICH IS DANGEROUSLY EXPOSED TO
DEADLY CHEMICALS FOR DECADES, THAT MARKS THE
BEGINNING OF AN EPIC 15-YEAR FIGHT-ONE.
• IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT HOW CHEMICAL COMPANIES
FUNCTION IN A MANNER THAT’S BOTH CRIMINAL
AND INCIDENTAL, CAUSING PEOPLE TO SUFFER
THROUGH THE WATER THEY DRINK AND THE AIR
THEY BREATHE.
THEME OF DARK WATERS

3. THE INDIVIDUAL FACTORS

4. PERSONALITY FRAMEWORK
MBIT (MYERS – BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR)
• QUESTION:-
THERE ARE 16 PERSONALITY TYPES WHICH ARE DIVIDED AMONG 4 DIFFERENT
DIMENSIONS IN MBIT FRAMEWORK. WHICH AMONG THOSE DO YOU THINK THE TRAITS
OF CHARACTER ROB BILOTT CAN FIT IN?
ANSWER:-
WE HAVE CHARACTERISED ROB BILLOT IN THE ‘ESTP’ PERSONALITY TYPE AS HE WAS
1. EXTRAVERSION :- ENTHUSIASTIC AND EXPRESSIVE
2. SENSING :- FIVE SENSES, PRACTICAL, REALISTIC, CONCRETE TASKS
3. THINKING :- DATA, OBJECTIVE, APPLY LOGIC, DATA DRIVEN
4. PERCEIVING :- FLEXIBLE, SPONTANEOUS, ADAPTIVE

5. VALUES
• QUESTION:-
VALUES ARE DEFINED AS THE BASIC CONVICTIONS ON HOW WE CONDUCT OURSELVES.
KEEPING THIS THOUGHT IN MIND, DESCRIBE THE VALUES WHICH WERE IMBIBED IN ROB
BILLOT.
ANSWER:-
ROBERT BILLOT DECIDED TO TAKE LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST DUPONT, EVEN
THOUGH HE WAS A CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY, REGARDING
THE PRESENCE OF PFOA, DEPICTING A SENSE OF DEVOTION WHICH LANDS HIM TO
SUFFER FROM ISCHEMIA.
THE TERMINAL VALUE WHICH HAS SHOWN IN ROB’S CHARACTER, IN THE MOVIE, IS
‘EQUALITY FOR ALL’ AND THE THREE INSTRUMENTAL VALUES ARE OPEN-
MINDEDNESS, COMPASSION AND ACTIVISM.

6. ATTITUDES
• QUESTION:-
EXPLAIN THE COMPONENTS OF ATTITUDES OF THE EX-EMPLOYEES OF DUPONT, WHICH
HAVE CREATED THEIR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE FIRM AS WELL AS TOWARDS
THEIR SUPERVISORS.
ANSWER:-
1. COGNITIVE = EVALUATION : THE OPINION OR BELIEF SEGMENT
DUPONT KEPT THEIR EMPLOYEES IN DARK REGARDING THE HAZARDOUS EFFECTS
OF PFOA, BEFORE IT CAME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.
2. AFFECTIVE = FEELING : THE EMOTIONAL OR FEELING SEGMENT
DUPONT CALLED THEIR EMPLOYEES AS RECEPTORS AND LACKED EMPATHY
TOWARDS THEM
3. BEHAVIORAL = ACTION : AN INTENTION TO BEHAVE IN A CERTAIN WAY
EMPLOYEES STOPPED USING THE FREE PRODUCTS WHICH DUPONT WAS
DISTRIBUTING TO THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIMENT.

7. THE GROUP AND DYADIC FACTORS

8. AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP
• QUESTION:- DEFINE THE AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP STYLE THAT ROB BILLOT
PORTRAYED IN THE MOVIE.
ANSWER:-
ROB BILLOT KNEW WHAT HE WAS BELIEVING IN, AND ACTED ON THE VALUES HE HAD
WHICH PROVED THAT HE HAD AN AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP STYLE. HIS SUPERVISING
PARTNER, TOM TERP, CONSIDERED HIM TO BE AN ETHICAL PERSON AND SUPPORTED HIM
WITH FULL FAITH.
ROB BILLOT ALSO SHOWED A SOCIALIZED CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE BY
CONVEYING THE VALUES THAT WERE OTHER CENTERED AND NOT SELF-CENTERED. FOR
INSTANCE, ROB WITH HIS POTENTIAL FOUGHT AGAINST DUPONT FOR THE FARMERS
AND PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND BECAME A ROLE- MODEL FOR THEM.

9. POLITICS : POWER IN ACTION
• QUESTION:- HOW WAS ORGANISATIONAL POLITICS BEING PRACTICED IN DUPONT?
ANSWER:-
ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOT REQUIRED AS PART OF A PERSON’S FORMAL ROLE IN THE
ORGANIZATION BUT THAT INFLUENCE, OR ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE, THE DISTRIBUTION
OF ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION CONTRIBUTES TO
THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR OF AN ORGANIZATION.
IN CONTEXT TO THIS, THE MOVIE HAD SHOWN A DARKER SIDE OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S
LARGEST ORGANISATION THAT WAS USING THEIR EMPLOYEES AS A PART OF THEIR
EXPERIMENT. DUPONT WAS EXPERIMENTING ON THE MALE EMPLOYEES BY PROVIDING
THEM TO SMOKE C-8 COATED CIGARETTES AND EXPERIMENTED ON WOMEN, INCLUDING
PREGNANT WOMEN, BY PROVIDING THEM WITH UTENSILS WHICH WERE COATED WITH
TEFLON.

10. CONFLICT
• QUESTION:- WHICH TYPE OF CONFLICT WAS UNDERGONE BY THE EMPLOYEES IN THE
LAW, FIRM TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER, WHILE DECIDING UPON SUING THE
CHEMICAL COMPANY, DUPONT FOR THE DAMAGES THEY WERE DOING TO THE PEOPLE
OF THE COMMUNITY?
ANSWER:-
THE LAW FIRM, TAFT STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER, IS A CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL
DEFENSE FIRM WHICH DEFENDS THEIR CHEMICAL FIRM CLIENTS. DUPONT WAS ALSO
ONE OF THEIR NEW CLIENTS, THAT WAS DUMPING TOXIC WASTE WHICH HAD A
HAZARDOUS NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE AS WELL AS ON THEIR
CATTLE.
WHILE HAVING THE MEETING ON TAKING A LEGAL ACTION AGAINST DUPONT, ROB AND
HIS COLLEAGUES FACED THE TASK CONFLICT I.E. THEY HAD A CONFLICT OVER CONTENT
AND GOALS OF THE FIRM.

11. REAL CHARACTERS OF THE MOVIE
MARK RUFFALO ROBERT BILLOT ANNE HATHAWAY SARAH BILLOT