Life Essays

Douglas McGregor, a social psychologist, introduced us to his famous X-Y Theory in his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise. Theory X and Theory Y are most commonly referred to in the field of management and employee motivation. McGregor’s theories, although over 40 years old, remain a basic principle …

It is okay to wear shorts, flip flops, and show your tattoo on your stomach when going to the beach, but is this appropriate dress attire in the workplace? The answer to this question should be no. Companies have changed the dress code policy to reflect a laid-back atmosphere for …

1) Discuss the concept of work centrality and its implications for motivation. Use specific country examples and discuss the relative meaning of work in those countries. The relative importance of work compared to that of leisure, community, religion, and family is known as “work centrality.” It is the “degree of …

I was reading about win-win conflict in the class textbook and think that the topic was very well stated however, I felt that in my 19 years in the Air Force and my 12 years of managerial leadership skills, there are more to the win-win approach than the book mentions. …

1. Introduction E-commerce means using online electronic data communications to perform or enable transactions, usually financial, to buy or sell, subscribe to or join something. The term e-commerce is usually used for transactions performed on the Internet, and within that, usually on the Web. This assignment attempts to find out …

In the Wedding of Zein written by Tayeb Salih, the portrayal of women in my opinion changes through out the story. They start off being the slaves of the man’s power by adapting that one man has the power to get them married if he falls in love with them. …

As Kevin Turner says, what makes companies successful in the long run is their ability to adapt to change as the world around them demands. Many failed companies and infrastructures collapse when they are confronted with the reality that the must revolve around the market and the customer experience, and …

Shakespeare’s famous revenge tragedy Hamlet is a story of unrelenting twists and thrills of madness and revenge. I have chosen to compare this play to Michael Almereyda’s film made in 2000 that is a modern interpretation of the original text and was an attempt to do to Hamlet what Baz …

In many of the plays by William Shakespeare, the central character goes through internal and external changes that ultimately shake their foundations to the core. Numerous theories have been put forth to explain the sequence of tragedies Shakespeare wrote during this period by linking it to some experience of melancholy, …

The main characters from the stories Of Mice and Men and “The Scarlet Ibis”, Lennie and Doodle, have similar dependencies, yet are completely different people. The writers of the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbech, and the writer of “The Scarlet Ibis”, James Hurst, outline characters that in certain …