Essays on Bailyn

Abstract

The paper involves studying the importance of Work-life balance to enhance employee productivity. The aspect of this paper is importance because labor is one of the essential factors for a company’s success and managers should know how to tap into that resource efficiently to achieve overall success. The study will detail a brief introduction regarding WLB, its importance and benefits to both employees and employers.

Introduction

Work-life balance is a combination of three words work, life and balance. Work is the physical and mental activities one does on a daily basis to attain a salary at the end of ...

The Ideological Origin of the American Revolution, published originally in 1967 by Harvard Professor of History Bernard Bailyn, is one of the most respected studies of the ideology and world view of the American Revolutionary period. The book helped to establish Bailyn’s reputation as a leading American historian. The text won both a Pulitzer Prize, and the Bancroft Prize for writing on American History. Bailyn’s text was part of a new movement in the study of history which actually focused on the actual documents produced by real people, including ordinary people, to create the historical narrative. Previously, ...

Causes of the Revolution

The American Revolution occurred between 1765 and 1783 after the colonists within the thirteen American colonies declined the British aristocracy and monarchical rule. Beginning 1765, the American colonists refused to acknowledge the power of the British parliament to tax the American colonists while the latter did not have colonial representatives in the governments. The following years were marred by protests as American patriots sought to ventilate their disapproval of the authority of the British monarchy and aristocracy over the thirteen American colonies. Religion played an important role in ushering the revolution as the Christian revivalists in the Great Awakening ...

- Staples Case

Many organizations with many units have increasingly moved from the traditional way of doing business and adopted rather non-traditional ways. This is due to the emerging issues which continue to change with the global trends in business. For instance, ‘Longs Drugs Company’ in the field of pharmaceuticals used to allow its managers to make products in accordance with the market served. However, this company has proved to be among the global pacesetters in business by having a more centralized decision making rather than decentralized. This allows it to adapt to changing trends. The drivers of this ...

In 1760, King George III took reign of England, making quite a few controversial decisions along the way. By acting more aggressively towards France, George III started to alienate the rest of Europe, and tensions started to mount between George and the Whigs, as well as other European countries. By contrast, the sociopolitical climate of the colonies at the time was incredibly harrowing - increased taxation and more and more controversial legislation on the part of England was breeding resentment among the colonists. The Sugar, Currency, Stamp and Quartering Acts of the mid-1760s, among others, were thought to be unfair ...

The popular belief that American independence was fought for economic reasons, such as unfair taxation without representation, has sometimes been challenged by historians. In his book, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States, Gordon S. Wood defies this view and proposes that the revolution was based on principles such as freedom, republicanism and equality. According to philosopher Isaiah Berlin, writers can be divided into two categories, those who know about many things, and those who decide to fixate on a single subject. Gordon S. Wood says he belongs to the second kind as his ...

Article of Confederation

Abstract After the outbreak of revolutionary war in the seventeenth century, the former United States wanted to have its own government to replace the British government. The article of confederation was quickly drafted and acted as the first constitution to the people of America. That particular constitution had so many limitations and controversial provisions that the Americans were opposed to. Among the controversies was that the congress was not allowed to pass laws before getting the approval of the congress. This was because of the fact that a big majority of the thirteen states had to pass a vote of ...

Religion, race and gender played a significant role in shaping the forms of interaction and association among different groups of people such as the Africans, Amerindians as well as the Europeans. During this time there were great encounters as early European voyages explored various parts of America in such of minerals and other natural resources. This culminated into cultural interactions in the 16th and 17th century that led to the Europeans taking over the land that belonged to Native Americans. They claimed to have discovered America and ended up building empires at the expense of the indigenous people. During this ...

Metaphors have become a way of life and expression. They help us bring some pictures together so that the explanation becomes more meaningful. We are therefore able to understand the meaning of something in a different perspective. Metaphors have found their use in describing the current forms of careers (Inkson, 2007). Traditional career forms are fast fading due to factors like outsourcing, automation, and changing economic landscapes. This paper will look at four metaphors that have been associated with careers. The four metaphors that are discussed in this paper include a career as relationships, career as a resource, career as actions, and career ...